quandl (http://www.quandl.com/) has a great feature called superset (you need a free acount)
where the user can combine different data variables (4 000 000 to choice from) into a big
dataset (csv file) that can be downloaded from a permenant web url. This a great data feed
for maple. The problem is however that you have to use stringtools (quite messy) in maple to
extract the data. Hence, it would be great to have a simple procedure that only needs the web

I can confirm the bug is present in Opera/Firefox/Chrome and unpredictable. I just successfully posted a reply elsewhere but got a failure here. I'll try again and if it fails will post by "branching out", which seems to work every time.

Consider a signal which is a real sine series, f(x)=2*sin(2*Pi*x) + 5*sin(2*Pi*6*x) + 9*sin(2*Pi*11*x).

Let F(w) be its Fourier transform. Answer F(w) is purely complex and expressed in terms of symbol Dirac.

Maple "plot" fails.

Plots of impulse trains like F(w)=sqrt(Pi)*I*(2*Dirac(w-Pi)+4*Dirac(w-4*Pi)) involve user intervention. Maple won't plot such expressions, because they are DISTRIBUTIONS (not FUNCTIONS).

Try plotting F(w) to see the engine's uninformative error message....

As others have noticed, after the update MaplePrimes is broken. I was not able to reply to the answers I got to my recent question about bookmarking. If someone listens: I am using Firefox 19.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.

I don't know how others feel, but if this is not addressed I am not sure how much more I will post here. MaplePrimes has been a vital forum for support for me and I have profited from all your help. If there is no more replying and discussion, this place has...

Since it is not possible for me to reply directly in that new Maple Primes:
I branched. Feel free to re-join for a reasonable structure. What a mess.

http://www.mapleprimes.com/questions/145527-Is-This-Matrix-Primitive

I am rusty on such (may be it is 'obvious' via Lie theory). Your group is just the
group of invertible matrices over the integers (this follows from algebra). And as

For the last few releases of Maple, we have been adding features to take advantage of multi-core processors.  Most of this work has focused on particular algorithms or on tools that allow users to author their own parallel code.  Although this was very useful for those users who were able to use those tools, many users did not see a performance improvement.  To help all users we need to integrate parallelism into the core algorithms of Maple.  In Maple 17 we have taken the first step towards general parallelism in the core algorithms by implementing a parallel garbage collector.

I'm branching-off because I can't currently add a comment to the OP nor a reply to the follow-up messages (mapleprimes update bug so far confirmed with Opera, Firefox, and Chrome on both Windows7x64 and kUbuntu12). Mapleprimes administrators: feel free to move this post to where it belongs.

I think this is an awesome demonstration of Maple's plotting abilities. The first thing that comes to mind is that this worksheet could be used to promote the new Maple Player. 

@Carl Love 

Same here, I've tested Opera and Firefox. I haven't bothered trying other browsers because if it doesn't work with Firefox, the most popular browser, it may be considered broken.

But I can branch out alright...

Editing:

@Carl Love 

I made this new thread because I cannot make replies in the original thread.

Now we turn to an example of the usage of the Dragilev method with Maple. Let us consider the curve
from
http://www.mapleprimes.com/questions/143454-How-To-Produce-Such-Animation .

Its points can be found by the Dragilev method as follows.

This is an effective method of solving systems of  N nonlinear and nonalgebraic equations in N+1 real-valued variables:
F(x)=0, where F=(f1,f2,..., fN) and x=(x1,x2,...,xN+1). (1)               
                                                                  
All the functions fj(x) are assumed to be continuously differentiable in some domain D in R^(N+1).
In general, such systems have an infinite set of the solutions which form a space curve in R^(N+1).
 The Optimization and DirectSearch solvers have difficulties with it.
The idea of the Dragilev method consists in the following. Let us assume that the space curve (1) can be parametrized through the  parameter t
which can be taken as the  length of the arc (for example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve ).
That presentation provides to avoid the difficulties associated with self-intersections and singularities.
We will obtain the coordinates of the points of the space curve under consideration as the solution
of the Cauchy problem for certain system of ODEs. We put the coordinates of a known point of (1) as the initial conditions.
The system of ODEs is obtained by the differentiation  with respect to t:

We treat (2) as a linear system in the derivatives diff(xj(t),t),j=1..N+1. In general, its solutions form an infinite set.
We choose the  solution of (2) as follows. We put diff(xN+1)= -Determinant(Matrix(n, (i,j)->diff(fi(x),xj))).
This is one of the key points of the method under consideration.
Next, we find diff(xj,t), j=1..N. At last, we numerically solve that system of ODEs, obtaining an array of points.
 The general case of a system of N nonlinear  equations in N variables
G(y)=0, where y=(y1, y2, ..., yN), G=(g1,g2,..., gN) (3),
is reduced to the previous one by homotopy. We choose a point y0= (y01, ..., y0N) and consider the system
G(y)- v*G(y0)=0 (4)
of N equations in N+1 variables (v is taken as  a dummy variable). Changing v from 1 to 0, we arrive to (3).
We don't consider any mathematical justification of the above pattern here as that does not deal with Maple.
I would like to point out the sites

http://forum.exponenta.ru/viewtopic.php?t=3892 and
http://forum.exponenta.ru/viewtopic.php?t=11284 , where the Dragilev method is discussed. Unfortunately, in Russian.
The googling of "Dragilev" and "Draghilev" does not produce many info.
A short biographical sketch: Dr. Anatoliy Vladimirovich Dragilev (1923 - 1997) was a professor at  Rostov State University in Russia.
See his articles here: http://www.mathnet.ru/php/person.phtml?&personid=32359&option_lang=eng and
http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/search/?q=au%3A%22dragilev%2C%20a*%20v*%22 .
 

I am very grateful to Professor Alexey B. Ivanov, who is an enthusiast of the Dragilev method, for the very useful discussions.

The new option added to MaplePrimes about two hours ago----to show Answers by date----only shows the Answers in reverse chronologocal order. That's ridiculous! Even more so with the comments still being in forward chronological order. The reason that people have requested date order so vehemently is to preserve the continuity of conversation. With the reverse chronological order, the continuity is worse than before.

Earlier this afternoon we made an update to MaplePrimes to introduce some new features and to squash a few bugs.

The primary purpose of the update was to improve the context around how replies and answers are entered on MaplePrimes. The most significant change you will notice here is that submission/edit boxes now appear inline  under the specific message you are replying to, instead of at the bottom of each page.

Other improvements include:

Maple 17 adds several new visualizations in Graph Theory as well as updates to inequality plotting and visualizing branch cuts in mathematical expressions.  In preparing the “what’s new” pages for Maple 17, we decided to showcase several of these plots alongside some of our other favourites.

The following file contains code to create most of the “what’s new” plots, as well as some quick tips and techniques for using the ColorTools package to enhance your plots:...

Dear Maple Users

I am mainly in favor of the new rules concerning subscripts. Using Ctrl+-- (double underscore) it is pretty straight forward to get a literal subscript and it displays much better in the palette Variables than was the case i Maple 16. Also the purple coloring of a variable containing a literal subscript makes sense, because it can be distinguished from the usual subscript (now Ctrl+shift+-). Good that you can remove the coloring in the View Menu (Atomic Variables...