I could not find any place to submit bug reports to Maplesoft, so I'll post this here:

Greetings, Maple saves backup files in my user directory with names like "untitled0_MAS.bak". When I leave the program on for long periods of time they get to be a nuisance. It would be nice if they were saved to a more discreet directory. I am using Mac OS 10.4.10 and Maple 11. Thank you for your time and keep up the good work. Cheers, Ed

I've submitted to Maplesoft some suggestions for Help pages in Maple 11.01. A copy is online, and comments on it would be welcomed: View 4119_HelpSuggestions--1101.mw on MapleNet or Download 4119_HelpSuggestions--1101.mw
View file details Note that the document is “live”—i.e. if the cursor is on an italicized word (preceded by “?”), and you press Enter, then the Help page comes up.

I've created a new blog entry concerning what I think might be an idea worth consideration:     slide rule

Statistics:-ScatterPlot provides a mechanism to plot a lowess curve, and the implementation seems to be flexible and convenient. There is, though, a problem with using ScatterPlot. ScatterPlot only plots the curve. I would like to be able to do computations with the curve; for example, I would like to compute the sum of squared residuals. So I suggest that Statistics[DataSmoothing] include a separate procedure for generating a lowess curve (the same curve that ScatterPlot plots). Note: I have posted about using lowe

As a relatively new Maple user I've ran into the message that the linalg package is superceded by the LinearAlgebra Package many times in the help pages. However, after using many older titles that used relatively older versions of Maple to demonstrate applications, I've sometimes found many of the linalg packages very intuitive and user friendly in cases where the LinearAlgebra operation may have created a little confusion. This blog entry is just my plea to Maplesoft to...

In this example, look at E1. Is it E2 or E3? We cannot tell from the way Maple displays them. For the answer, keep reading. Shouldn't Maple put parentheses or something in its rendering of E2 at least?

> E1 := f @ log @@ 4;

> E2 := (f @ log) @@ 4;

Can someone help me with the Dagger command in the Physics package ? I can't seem to get it to work for matrices. thanks,

I'm running Maple 11 on a Windows XP machine. Should I bother getting the new update for Maple 11, or is this new release not applicable to me ? v/r,

The title says it all - although in the documentation of the Maple Toolbox for Matlab you can read that it is fully compatible with Matlab's Symbolic Math Toolbox, this is actually not the case. So better do not expect that after you install the Maple Toolbox you'll be able to use your old m-files that worked OK with Symbolic Math Toolbox - they might work, if they rely only on the most basic features. However, as soon as you need anything a little bit more complicated, you'll experience a lot of difficulties. One example for all - with Symbolic Math Toolbox you can have: >> var_str = '[a; b]' % symbolic matrix represented as char

I've been laying low for a while now, finding new ways to break and repair Maple. With Maple11, I've found at least two disturbing bugs. The first is in implicitplot(): Maple no longer allows for variable ranges that evaluate to numbers. In Maple10, the command plots[implicitplot](x^3=y-x, x=-5..5, y=0..x); plots correctly, whereas the same command in Maple11 results in the error message: "Error, (in plots/implicitplot) invalid input: invalid range for second variable" The second bug is yet another bug in Maple's eternally bug-ridden Worksheet package. I do not know if this bug exists in previous versions of Maple, but there is a problem reading in nested quotes. To see this bug, do the following:

To check the correctness of the result given by maple it would be nice to integrate a theory prover capability in maple or give more support to work them together.

Why isn't it still possible to easily create and play sound like with Mathematica?????

Does anyone know if Maple's handwriting recognition feature employ statistical pattern recognition in some way ? v/r,

I would like to see the ability to set the plot box and axes transparency, or even color of those items in some future release of Maple. Thanks, Tim