Everybody is invited to Maple Wiki .

It is hosted on Maple Advisor, a Maple community site independent of Maplesoft and/or Mapleprimes.

The site has started just a couple of days ago and doesn't have much of a content yet.

We are pleased to announce that Maple 12 is now available.  It has some very cool new features - my personal favorites include the addition of polar plots, nifty new dials and gauges, a start-up code region, and the ability to use colour in table cells.  Check out our website to find out what’s new, to watch Maple 12 movies in the new Demo Center, for full details on upgrade specials and more.

Because of John's answer to my last comment about a Maple wiki, I have searched first for antecedents in Maple Primes. From the many posts found in this search, I put together here what I consider the main points stated so far.

Oficial plans + technology:

http://www.mapleprimes.com/forum/how_do_we_grow_this_site

I spotted this today whist wandering the blogosphere: Who Among You are Geek Enough to Decorate Your Easter Eggs in Mathematica? (via BoingBoing). Clearly there is a challenge here.

I am not a master of the plot command, but I would like to see what others can come up with. 

Here's a simple egg to start people off:

plots:-implicitplot3d((1/4)*x^2*(1+.1*z)+(1/4)*y^2*(1+.1*z)+z^2/2.75^2 = 1, x = -3 .. 3, y = -3 .. 3, z = -3 .. 3, grid = [20, 20, 20], style = patchnogrid, shading = zhue);

A search I was doing dug up this old gem, involving a discussion between Gerald Edgar and I over a Maple problem 16 years ago!

Easy challenge: improve on my solution to Gerald's problem.

History challenge: my email address shows as wmsical!jjcarett@watmath.waterloo.edu.  Can you puzzle that out?  That is really two questions, a) how is that an email address and b) what is 'wmsical' ?

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the monthly Maple Mentors Award for February is Joe Riel. Joe will receive a prize of his choice to thank him for his involvement with the MaplePrimes community.

Congratulations!!

A long-time member of mapleprimes, Gerald A. Edgar has recently posted a wonderful paper, "Transseries for beginners" up on the arXiv.  It is elementary[1], but not easy, and written in a very engaging style.  For those interested in the mathematics used in some of the darker corners of Maple, this is a great introduction.

In Math Mode in a Maple worksheet,
how do I type something such as

L := [1, 2, "abc", "a", 7.0, infinity];
for x in L do
if type(x, 'string') then
print(x);
break
end if
end do

on multiple lines?

Also, please show me in the online Help menu
the explanation for how one makes such line breaks
without setting off execution.

I got Maple last August. I have searched the online Help
menu for any mention of a line break but have not found it.

Thank you.

We are pleased to announce the winner of the monthly Maple Mentors Awards for December. The winner for December is Acer. Acer will receive a prize of his choice to thank him for his involvement with the MaplePrimes community.

Congratulations and keep up the good work!!

a bus travels 200 km at a constant speed. a car travelling 10 km/h faster than the bus, completes the same distance in 1 hour less than the bus.

(1) how many hours does the bus take to travel the 200 km?

(2) what is the speed of the car?