http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/40175-The-Top-Ten-Maple-Errors en-us 2026 Maplesoft, A Division of Waterloo Maple Inc. Maplesoft Document System Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:11:51 GMT Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:11:51 GMT The latest comments added to the Post, The Top Ten Maple Errors http://www.mapleprimes.com/images/mapleprimeswhite.jpg http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/40175-The-Top-Ten-Maple-Errors http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/40175-The-Top-Ten-Maple-Errors?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:The Top Ten Maple Errors:Comments#comment73904 This is useful in at least two ways: 1. for new users, so they can learn from other's common mistakes 2. for developers, so that they can fix the underlying issue or at least find ways to mitigate the problem. It would be a very serious usability improvement to Maple if every one of those issues had some 'mitigation strategy' implemented. I have some ideas of how I would deal with most of those issues myself, but perhaps the best thing to do is to not limit developers' imagination on possible improvements by prematurely making suggestions. But I seriously think that this could be a real feather in Maplesoft's cap as well as a great marketing opportunity, especially as most of the competitors have a reputation for being rather disdainful of their actual users, if these things were addressed. The latest comments added to the Post, The Top Ten Maple Errors 73904 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:42:37 Z JacquesC JacquesC http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/40175-The-Top-Ten-Maple-Errors?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:The Top Ten Maple Errors:Comments#comment73892 Greetings. From my own experience here at Mapleprimes, I see new users using lower case "p" to represent "pi" instead of using "Pi". I don't believe this warrants it's own line in the top 10, but it might want to be combined with item 10: The exponential function is exp, and <maple>π</maple> is written as Pi. <em>Regards, Georgios Kokovidis Dräger Medical</em> The latest comments added to the Post, The Top Ten Maple Errors 73892 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:20:43 Z gkokovidis gkokovidis http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/40175-The-Top-Ten-Maple-Errors?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:The Top Ten Maple Errors:Comments#comment84343 Yes, this should rate a mention: I'll put it in the "Spelling counts" section. The latest comments added to the Post, The Top Ten Maple Errors 84343 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:08:12 Z Robert Israel Robert Israel http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/40175-The-Top-Ten-Maple-Errors?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:The Top Ten Maple Errors:Comments#comment73623 <p>Does anyone have a &quot;Ten More Maple Errors&quot; list?</p> <p>If so, I propose including confusion between sum and add. This topic has come up several times on MaplePrimes, most recently (today) in the forum titled <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/forum/sumdoesntseemvaluesmatrixwhy">sum(...) doesn't seem to like values from a Matrix, why?</a>.</p> <p>If I could search MaplePrimes without destroying this partial post, I would search for other instances of this on MaplePrimes.</p> <p>Instead of Top Ten lists, would it be more appropriate to start a FAQ on the student side of MaplePrimes? I could create a book page, but how many new users would think to look at a &quot;book page&quot; for a FAQ? It deserves more prominent location. This, I believe, requires some administrative intervention.</p> <p>Doug</p> <pre> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas B. Meade Math, USC, Columbia, SC 29208 E-mail: mailto:meade@math.sc.edu Phone: (803) 777-6183 URL: http://www.math.sc.edu/~meade/ </pre> The latest comments added to the Post, The Top Ten Maple Errors 73623 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:31:24 Z Doug Meade Doug Meade http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/40175-The-Top-Ten-Maple-Errors?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:The Top Ten Maple Errors:Comments#comment73600 <p>I'm a first time user of mapleprimes and this is the second thing I looked at.&nbsp; So it's not too obscure and it is very helpful.&nbsp; I find Maple is very picky and this top ten list is very helpful.&nbsp; Thanks.</p> The latest comments added to the Post, The Top Ten Maple Errors 73600 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:48:36 Z dahllama dahllama http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/40175-The-Top-Ten-Maple-Errors?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:The Top Ten Maple Errors:Comments#comment72464 <p>Thanks</p> <p>The list reminds me of what I had to do wayyy back&nbsp;when debugging programs in basic.&nbsp; Looking for mispelled words, missing&nbsp;brackets..&nbsp; etc..</p> <p>All in all thanks for the list.&nbsp;</p> The latest comments added to the Post, The Top Ten Maple Errors 72464 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:12:07 Z Chris Roung Chris Roung