Visual Studio Express which is a small version of Visual Studio available for free download, has appeared to be very successful in 2 directions. First, it practically killed all other C and C++ compilers for Windows, as well as decreased number of people using cygwin and mingwin. Second, many people downloaded it and used it for some time at home, have made their companies to buy Professional or Team Suite versions for their work. It started with VS 2005 and continues now with VS 2008.

Take a look at one of the most successful software companies, Microsoft.

Their most successful operating system names were either year-related, 95, 98, and 2000, or had some names, XP and Vista. Their latest Office software were named as Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007.  Visual Studio .NET, 2005, and 2008.

Continuing traditional Maple naming scheme, the next version would be Maple 13, with number 13 that many consider being unlucky.

I suggest to apply the successful Microsoft naming strategy instead and name it Maple 2009.

Hello!

My kittens finally managed to destroy my macbook pro, it was on its way out, but clearly the kittens had a grudge.  It was a first generation but still was my finest machine to date. 

Now being back in school and .. well just dont have the money flow for now, I am wondering what people think about the performance of Maple on a Macbook, will it be sufficient for a student (mathematics)? 

I know most people here are on PC's but Im sticking with OS x.

heres the specs:

http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html

Not only it would be desirable, but it is already implemented elsewhere as in Cadabra [quoted from its site]:

Cadabra is a computer algebra system (CAS) designed specifically for the solution of problems encountered in field theory.

Key features of Cadabra:

Header Footer are a welcome addition, BUT
1. It's not obvious how to get a different header | footer on the first page, a fundamental option.
2. The &(Date) is not picking up my system date format!!
3. I placed this in the righthand box "MyName ~ &[Page] of &[Pages]", but it does not show up in the preview.
4. There is no option to change the font style or size in the header|footer, a fundamental requirement.

No hotkey for common functions such as pi, sqrt, text alignment. These would speed data entry.

Hello,

I wonder if it is possible to add the capability of computing the Bivariate Meijer G

function which is defined by means of a two-fold contour integral in the complex plane [1].

This is a very interesting possibility, indeed, because, as it is well known, the integral of

the product of three Meijer G functions  can be expressed in closed form by means of the bivariate

Meijer G function. Many useful integrals can be computed in this way. For the time being, I am a

The XMLTools package appears to use a DOM parser.  This requires that all of the XML data be loaded into memory and parsed before it can be used.  This is less efficient than a SAX or stream-based parser that operates on only parts of the XML tree at a time.  It would be a useful enhancment to include SAX based parsing in Maple.

Hi, have a look at the pic. Maple has occasionally problems to combine solutions of an integral (and not only there) to a real term. One has to  do it by hand.  Are there any plans to improve this behaviour ?

Hi,

I just realized that Maple 8 shuts down without saving every time I try to save a document. Obviously, this is a very serious problem. Any tips? I actually uninstalled the whole software package, and reinstalled it, only to find that the problem was still there. I hope someone else has dealt with this. Please help. Thanks,

John

Bonjour,

It seems that bit to bit functions on integers, like the C-functions and, or, not, xor, << (left shift) , >> (right shift), are missing in Maple.
 

Why?

> 8 and 25;
Error, invalid boolean expression

GraphTheory includes ImportGraph and ExportGraph.  These are handy functions but they would be much more useful if they supported GraphML.  GraphML is a popular standard.  It is particularly useful for integration with tools built with the Prefuse API (http://prefuse.org/).  Please add GraphML support for importing and exporting Graphs.

As Demmel and others have noted, SVD is both more reliable and more expensive than QR as a method of solving rank-deficient least squares problems.

SVD is the method that LinearAlgebra:-LeastSquares will choose when the Matrix has more columns than rows (n>m), unless instructed otherwise using the optional 'method' parameter.

LinearAlgebra:-SingularValues always computes a full U and Vt. But for least squares computations, such as when n>m, this is not necessary. Including the smaller singular values may just be (re-)introducing noise. See here for more detail.

Here's a 20x2000 example, using wrapperless external calling and the SVD routine dgesvd in the CLAPACK library. The effective speedup by using the Thin SVD for that 20x2000 least squares example is about a factor of 100 (ie, 2000/20), with a similar reduction in additional memory allocation.

You have options to open tabs in separate windows or move existing multiple tabs into separate windows. 

Can we add an option to combine tabs into one window? 

  restart: interface(version); Digits:=14:

    Classic Worksheet Interface, Maple 11.02, Windows, Nov 10 2007 Build ID 330022

  Ei(1,1/2*Pi*(1+2*k)): 
  %=convert(%,Sum);
  subs(k=0,%);
  evalf(%);

                    Pi (1 + 2 k)
              Ei(1, ------------) = GAMMA(Pi k + 1/2 Pi)
                         2

                             Pi            Pi
                      Ei(1, ----) = GAMMA(----)
                             2            ...

I have been wondering about the reception of an independent patch Library for Maple.

I'll lay out a few ideas, and then maybe some criticism (or indifference) might follow.

I'm a bullet-point sort of person:

• sourceforge project with a few willing experts for vetting and gatekeeping of submissions.
• Patch .mla Library archive, going into /toolbox/Patch/lib/ so as to get picked up automatically by libname.
• Self-building, with...