A favorite diversion of mine (and of many around the Maplesoft office) is xkcd. Its author, Randall Munroe, bills it as “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Since 2005, he’s been entertaining many self-proclaimed geeks with his unique and slightly skewed jokes on technology, computer science, mathematics, and relationships.

I really like the post in which a substitute teacher – hm, Mr. Munroe......

I recently started experimenting with autocompile in Maple.

I must say that I am bit surprised by the difference in performance for different loops and procedures

depending of what type of notation you use. I have below presented 3 procedures that uses slightly

difference notation. We can see that the first procedure (iterating over list elements) is extremely slow in Maple.

The second procedure is faster but the third procedure (compiled, converted to C ) is fastest.

Is possible to understand how to use maple 12 to input equations like this. I have difficulty in understanding the help section of Maple. I dont see the functions listed in any of the pallettes as they are in my homework.

Thank You. I appreciate your time.

1.)Find the Fourier series for the function:

I need to understand how to solve de with maplesoft using laplace. find the transform of the function sin 3t + 3t cos 3t. If I use the table, then I don't know how to enter the equation in maplesoft Thank You

I wrote a simple worksheet which allows one to explore the results of iterated applications of the perfect (out) shuffle.

 

 

<a href='http://mapleoracles.maplesoft.com:8080/maplenet/primes/worksheet/9973_shuffle.mw'>View 9973_shuffle.mw on MapleNet</a> or <a href='http://www.mapleprimes.com/files/9973_shuffle.mw'>Download 9973_shuffle.mw</a><br/><a href='http://www.mapleprimes.com/viewfile/3140'>View file details</a>

In this post I would like to kindly ask users of this package (if there are any) for a feedback. Please, add a comment to share your experience with FourierTrigSeries package (how do you use it) and suggest new features or report bugs.

 

The attached worksheet is a wonderful introduction to the concept of obtaining the area under a curve.

You'll see how easy it is to learn how to find the limit of the sum of a series using Maple.

An interactive video tutorial that shows you how to do Riemann sums really fast is linked below:

(Ctrl+Click on the link to view the video)

Riemann Sums...

Back to school, back to school, to prove to dad that I'm not a fool...(if you don't know what this is from, google it)

Well now that the school year has started, it's time to get the old grey matter going.  Now if you're a student on this board, there's a good chance that:

a) you know how to use Maple and are helping others out; or

b) you are not familiar with Maple and you want all the help you can get.

I'm assuming there are more people...

Here is some standard alternative to Newton's method (and
thus may safe some homework ... so what). 

It will find a root of f (I think it must be continuous C^1)
in the interval ax ... bx, if it has different signs at the
boundaries.

The code is more or less translated from netlib C library
(or similar).

Usage:

  Digits:=16;

  f:= x -> exp(x)-Pi;
  zBrent( f, 0.0, 2.0);
  'f(%)': '%'= evalf(%);

If F is a quadratic function on a n-dimensional vector space,
then F(x) is affine equivalent to one of the following:

  Sum( epsilon[j]*x[j]^2, j=1 ..r  ), 
  Sum( epsilon[j]*x[j]^2, j=1 ..r  ) + alpha, 

But note the mouse-over caption! See www.xkcd.com for todays (June 11, 2008) strip. This will be printed and posted at the door that seperates the Physics Dept. from the Math Dept. at most institutions.

Tim

I recently submitted my work to Maple Application Center and I received a bug report from a staff. Then, I resubmitted it after fixing bugs. However, I have a bug report again (^_^; Yes, this is because my work was poor, but in other words, all applications in Maple Application center that passed strict check by staff are all guaranteed to have good quality. I am sure that everyone can find good tools for education and research. We should utilize them. If we can not find applications that we want, let us develop works and submit them ! Yasuyuki Nakamura

For a bit of light relief, head on over to the online comic strip at phdcomics.com.  If you've ever been a PhD student, be careful, this strip might make the nightmares come back...

I run Maple on a Wintel machine, specifically a Dell Dimension 9100 Mini-Tower: Pentium D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB) Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005.  I also recently acquired an OLPC.  I don't think that the OLPC will be much of a Maple platform in the near future but it does run Linux.

No, the title does not come from hornybitches.com, nor does it mean something related to sex.