In Maple 11 Standard Interface, occasionally text will be entered in UTF-8 encoding. I have not exactly found a rhyme nor reason for this to occur. Sometimes, it will occur when I am formatting text in a paragraph to be more readable. Sometimes, it will occur when I copy output and paste it into a command line to be executed. Sometimes (and this one is the oddest I've found), it will happen when I go into a line with a string and add a \" inside the string. The UTF-8 encoding is becoming a very large problem, as when it occurs on a command line as in the second instance, Maple will very often interpret the command incorrectly.

Some of you might have wondered what we Maplesoft employees do in our spare time. Well, in a couple of weeks, we will be starting our 7th annual in-house Scrabble tournament. Scrabble (trademark of Hasbro, Inc.) is the popular board game in which words are formed from letter tiles. The tournament attracts participants from all parts of our company, though it is particularly popular among the R&D members. The tournament goes over a month, with each participant playing a total of 5 games. The top players then continue on to play-off rounds. Most people play over the lunch hour in our common area, and the games frequently attract spectators. This is not an official National Scrabble Association (NSA) tournament, but we follow most of the NSA rules, using clocks and dictionaries for challenges.

In the following working Maple 11 worksheet an error ("Error, (in rtable/Product) invalid arguments") occurs if "array" is changed to "matrix". Also, if I change "Vector" to "array" I don't get the answer that I want. I get the same error if I use the Matrix Palette to define the matrix. View 4937_SE.mw on MapleNet or Download 4937_SE.mw
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Does anyone know how to solve this equation 49x + 24y + 37z = 3778171

I have just noticed that user _JZlV_BjwBOR has just rocketted up the charts (with 39 points from 13 blog posts). Curious, since I did not remember seeing any such posts, I look at this user's blog and it is empty. What gives?

I wonder why

a,b := NULL,NULL:

does not work, leading to an error of ambiguous multiple assignment, whereas

a := NULL:
b := NULL:

does work. Nothing critical of course, just mysterious, or what?

Hi, When I click on the link titled 'here' in "Post a new comment" -> "Input Format" -> "Filtered HTML" -> "Allows use of and tags to enter 2D math here for help", I get a blank page http://www.mapleprimes.com/node/add/about/posting/math Does anyone know where I could get the relevant information? TIA, -- Jean-Marc

When I click on the "buttons" titled "About" or "Help" (on the top-right part of MaplePrimes pages), I get the following error message: "Access Denied Sorry, it looks like you do not have sufficient permissions to access this page [...]" Can someone else access the required pages or is it just me (something wrong with my account, perhaps)? (I use Firefox 2.0, Windows XP SP2, and I was logged into my MaplePrimes account when I tried.) Regards, -- Jean-Marc

Concerning custom indexing functions it seems that there is nothing analogous to TypeTools:-AddType(...), with which you can define new types as

TypeTools:-AddType(name,handler);

where, most importantly, name may be a variable. How can something similar (i.e., the name being given by a variable) be accomplished for new indexing functions when the only available option for defining those seems to be something like

`index/name` := proc()
   # something
end proc;

where name cannot be a variable?

I have Maple 11 installed on PC running on Vista, the classical version works fine, but the standard version doesn't. In fact I'm not even able to open it. I've tried uninstalling Maple 11 to reinstall it after but the uninstallation process doesn't run neither. I also tried reinstalling Maple 11 over my existing installation but the installation process shuts because Maple Reader is already installed. Now Maple 11 doesn't even display in my list of installed programs. How to get that fixed?

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I realize that there is a small issue with maple. first I enter the following int(x^n,x) and I have the result x^(n+1)/(n+1) But this is correct only if I tell maple that n is not -1. Now I would that maple give a piecewise function as a solution to the above integral. Similarly, issue the command solve(sin(x)=0,x) and maple gives the answer 0. Well, that again is not right unless I specifically tell maple that I want my answer in [0,pi/2]. The same issue arises with other computations too. The CAS, Mupad 4.0 handles each of the above scenarios correctly.

How can I use an 'if clause function' in a summation? Suppose we have codes as follows: > Q[0]:=[0,0]:Q[1]:=[1,0]: > len:=A->sqrt(A[1]^2+A[2]^2): > kappa:=proc(y) local h;h:=[0,0];if y=h then 5; else 1/len(y);fi;end; > s:=R->sum(kappa(R-Q[n])*e(Q[n]),n=0..1): > s([1,0]); Error, (in NumericRange) summand is singular in the interval of summation It seems that when kappa comes into a summation form, it couldn't run the 'if clause'. What is my error in writing these codes?

Evaluate: lim [1/x * ( (a^x - 1) / (a-1) ) ] ^ 1/x x->infinity where a > 0 and a is not equal to 1