tomleslie

A check on website functionality...

Asked: tomleslie 13821 Product: MaplePrimes

July 01 2019

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Generally when I respond to questions on this site, I make sure that I tick the checkbox requesting that I get an email when updates are made to the thread.

I've just realised that I have been receiving no such updates for a week or so. Two possibilities

Problem with Mapleprimes website, meaning that email updates aren't being generated/sent
Problem with my ISP

Before I try investigating (2) above, I'd just like to know if anyone else has seen any issue which might be explained by (1) above

Maple 2019 mw file format issue...

Asked: tomleslie 13821 Products: Maple 2019 , MaplePrimes

March 15 2019

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If I create and save a worksheet in Maple 2019, then try to up load it here, it uploads but contents won't display

No issue if I have an "identical" worksheet in Maple 2018.

See the attachment attempts below

#### Result of trying to upload Maple 2019 file here

Maple Worksheet - Error

Failed to load the worksheet /maplenet/convert/fibon2019.mw .

Download fibon2019.mw

But "same" file from Maple 2018 "works"

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#
# Recursive Fibonacci generator
#
  myFib:= proc(n::integer)
               option remember;
               if   n=1
               then return 1
               elif n=0
               then return 0
               else return myFib(n-1)+myFib(n-2):
               fi:
          end proc:

  seq(myFib(j), j=0..20);

(1)

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Download fibon2018.mw

Sets????...

Asked: tomleslie 13821

February 13 2019

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You use curly braces, ie '{}' as a container. Within Maple such curly braces designate a set, and Maple will always display sets in "lexicographic" order.

Since order has no meaning for entries in a set, trying to "sort" a set is meaningless. You can only sort lists, Arrays etc where the concept of order meaningful

See the attached for examples of sorting sets, lists, Arrays, and note that sorting of sets doesn't do anything useful

For future reference

This should be a "Question", not a "Post" (and if I knew how to move it I would!)
When posting on this site, try to avoid using third party sites like dropbox. Upload code (not pictures of code) using the big green up-arrow in the Mapleprimes toolbar

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  restart;
  alpha:=[2,3,4,5];
#
# Try sorting sets - won't work because
# order is meaningless in a set
#
  sort( {abs(alpha[1]-30),abs(alpha[2]-30),abs(alpha[3]-30),abs(alpha[4]-30)}, `<`);
  whattype(%);
  sort( {abs(alpha[1]-30),abs(alpha[2]-30),abs(alpha[3]-30),abs(alpha[4]-30)}, `>`);
  whattype(%);
#
# Do the same thing with lists, where order is significant
#
  sort( [abs(alpha[1]-30),abs(alpha[2]-30),abs(alpha[3]-30),abs(alpha[4]-30)], `<`);
  whattype(%);
  sort( [abs(alpha[1]-30),abs(alpha[2]-30),abs(alpha[3]-30),abs(alpha[4]-30)], `>`);
  whattype(%);
#
# You can also sort entries in an Array()
#
  sort(Array([abs(alpha[1]-30),abs(alpha[2]-30),abs(alpha[3]-30),abs(alpha[4]-30)]), `<`);
  whattype(%);
  sort(Array([abs(alpha[1]-30),abs(alpha[2]-30),abs(alpha[3]-30),abs(alpha[4]-30)]), `>`);
  whattype(%);

(1)

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(2)

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Download sortSet.mw

Disappearing questions...

Asked: tomleslie 13821 Product: MaplePrimes

December 30 2018

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Earlier today (30/12/2018), I answered a fairly routine question relating to solving the PDE for a vibrating string problem where the initial string profile was given by a piecewise function. No big deal - a fairly simple answer. Only thing that struck me at the time as odd/unusual, was that 2-3 days ago there was a very (very!) similar problem which I had also answered.

These two problems were posted from different usernames, but I did reference the earlier problem in my solution to the later one, just because they were so similar.

Both of these questions (and obviously my answers) have now "disappeared" -how/why?

I can (just about?) understand that an OP might be allowed to delete his/her question, but I am surprised that (s)he can delete a complete thread - ie after response(s) have been provided
I suspect that both questions came from the same individual employing different user names (why?). I guess this is pretty much impossible for MapleSoft to verify, particularly if the OP has multiple email addresses??
Would I be correct in assuming that this is a method for students to get their homework" done whilst leaving little/no trace for their academic supervisors to find?
Since all trace of both questions have disappeared and I can't actually remember the usernames (or emails with which they are associated), presumably the OP could repeat this behaviour indefinitely?

Matrix Multiplication with 2D input...

Asked: tomleslie 13821 Product: Maple 2018

October 17 2018

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Whilst trying to debug another problem on this site, this one

https://www.mapleprimes.com/questions/225688-How-To-Compute-Inverse-Of-A-Matrix-For

I came across a Maple bug(?) which was so serious, I thought either

I'm being more than usually dim
it needs it's own entry here, so that others can check

Problem can be summarized as:

When using 2D input, can the '.' character be used for simple matrix multiplication???? Because it isn't working for me!

Entering the '.' character places a bold, midline dot between the two arguments, but executing the result gives "Error unable to parse". Converting to 1-D input, no issues - everything works as expected.I should also point out that

I never normally use 2D-input for my own work
the attached worksheet executes correctly in Maple 2017.3, X86 64 WINDOWS, Sep 13 2017, Build ID 1262472.

If this is reproducible then wtf!

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restart; with(LinearAlgebra); kernelopts(version)