Fridays Killer Questions 7city Learning:

Question) There are eight balls, one of which is slightly heavier than the others. You have a two-armed scale, which you are allowed to use only twice. Find the ball that’s heavier.

Answer) Put three balls on each side of the scale. If the arms are equal, you know the heavy ball is one of the two remaining. If the arms are unequal, take the three balls on the heavier side, pick two and weigh them against each other.

Fridays Killer Questions 7city Learning:

Question)  You’re trying to get to Truthtown. You come to a fork in the road. One road leads to Truthtown (where everyone tells the truth), the other to Liartown (where everyone lies). At the fork in the road is a man from one of those towns -- but which one? You get to ask him one question to discover the way. What’s the question?

Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow

1) A bat and ball cost $1.10.
2) The bat costs one dollar more than the ball.
3) How much does the ball cost?

x+y=1.1; x=cost of the bat, y=cost of the ball.
y=x+1; substituting for y
x+(x+1)=1.1;
2x=0.1;
x=0.05; the cost of the ball
y=1.05; the cost of the bat

The right answer is 5 cents.
The intuitive, appealing, and wrong number is, of course 10 cents.

dicing-with-death-chance-risk-and-health (Stephen Senn)

Mr Brown has exactly two children. At least one of them is a boy. What is the probability
that the other is a girl?

What could be simpler than that? After all, the other child either is or is not a girl.
I regularly use this example on the statistics courses I give to life scientistsworking
in the pharmaceutical industry. They all agree that the probability is one-half.

So they are all...

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Maple Russian site: 7.000.000 visits, 12,000 visitors per day.

In February, I will place a new package - DeMapler.

Several thousands of solutions of standard problems. Step by Step.

From first order differential equations to systems of DEs.

Dear friends, I recently answered a query concerning the action of the automorphism group of the Petersen graph on its edges at math.stackexchange.com. The algorithm that I present is quite naive, but it does produce the desired result. I thought I would share it here because it makes a nice Maple programming exercise e.g. for a talented student at high school level. (I have always thought that Polya counting and permutation groups belong into the high school curriculum.) It makes extensive use of Maple's internal hash function for compound objects to efficiently compare them during the computation. It is quite interesting to observe how Maple does work hard for several minutes to do this computation and then comes up with the correct answer. (Obviously the core computation needs to be done only once.) Enjoy!

Best regards, Marko Riedel

If you come up with a better algorithm then please do share it at the stackexchange link.

Important update Mar 24 2016. The algorithm at the above post is middling to say the least, but can perhaps serve as an example of Maple computational techniques. There is an efficient algorithm including Maple code here at math.stackexchange.com.

Maple T.A. 9 is here!

The new release includes a large selection of useful new features and enhancements, including:

- Content. Maple T.A. 9 includes an easy mechanism to share questions with the community and access questions created by others, through the Maple T.A. Cloud. The Maple T.A. Cloud already contains thousands of questions that you can use and modify.

- Adaptive Testing. Expanding on the adaptive question...

I would like to be able to look at the maple video tutorials with the MaplePlayer on the Ipad. Hope that this is made possible.

Ten more Clickable Calculus solutions have been added to the Teaching Concepts with Maple section of the Maplesoft web site. Solutions to problems include examples in algebra, differential and integral calculus, lines-and-planes in multivariate calculus, linear algebra, and vector calculus.

The algebra additions include an example illustrating how a

We have added over 2000 new questions to the Maple T.A. Content Center.   Content comes from the University of Guelph, the University of Waterloo, the University of Portsmouth, and Keele University. Topics include calculus, statistics, engineering mathematics

I would like to be able to read Maple manuals and the AEM book that I have bought on the ipad. I can understand that I will not be able to run the commands. But it woud be nice to read through the different sections while reclining on my bed. Hope that you will make it possible.

http://webmath.exponenta.ru : Russian users thanked Maple 6.000.000 times.

We have just released Teaching Calculus with Maple: A Complete Kit.  Leveraging both Maple and Maple T.A., Teaching Calculus with Maple includes lecture notes, student worksheets, Maple demonstrations, Maple T.A. homework, and more – everything you need to teach Calculus 1 and Calculus 2.  Teaching Calculus with Maple  was developed at the University of Guelph under the leadership of an award-winning teacher and field-tested in classes with hundreds of students.

Dear Maple users

I have had Maple creating graphics for me that I cannot do in other programs I have access to: 3D pictures of circle waves interferring or even the result of an interference pattern from a diffraction grating in Physics. But when it comes to simple animations, I am not all that impressed.

Basicly I have three complaints: 

a)  Maple seems to use a lot of space to save frame information, resulting in large filesizes.

Recently, a Maplesoft customer service representative received an e-mail from one of our users with the subject line: A Simple Thank You. We wanted to share this message with you, as it demonstrates how the power and flexibility of Maple helped one student get ahead in his studies.

The following is an actual email we received from Eli E., which describes his experience using Maple as a university student.

Hello, my name is Eli...