There are a number of facilities in Maple which may be extended. Included amongst those are `type`, `print`, `evalf`, and `latex`. The help-page ?extension_mechanism claims that all the built-in functions allow for extension. It also mentions a few system Library routines such as `verify` (but does not mention `latex`).

There are some descriptions of varying completeness in a few...

I just posted a new poll. Do you have a DVD drive on your primary computer? Maplesoft is considering changing the media we use to distribute our products, and we would like to know what media most of our customers will be able to use.

Searching for something completely different (it sounds almost like Monty Python), yesterday I stumbled over the conversion of trigonometric expressions to radicals, see ?convert,radical, and I became intrigued: would Maple be able to convert cos(2*Pi/17) to radicals? It was not.

Gauss was the first to show that the 17-gon could be constructed using compass and straightedge. The expression 16*cos(2*Pi/17) in terms of radicals can be found at the Wikipedia page Heptadecagon.

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I have just filled up my motherboard with 2 Gb of RAM (from 512Mb) and installed a DVD re-writer to my aging Windows XP(SP2) machine.  It is now lovely and everything seems to work except my Maple 9.5 in Standard view which will no longer start (although in classic it does and seems to work).  I am in my final year at university and using maple heavliy for the final year project so I am relatively desparate at the moment.

I would like to flag the file http://www.mapleprimes.com/viewfile/2101.

Is there a way to flag files similar to the way that posts can be flagged?

This page says that there are five rankings in this table. But there are only four.

Inspired by Jacques' blog entry Introduction to transseries, concerning a paper by Gerald A. Edgar, using Maple and published at arXiv, I here take the liberty to refer to a recent paper of mine which also uses Maple and is published at arXiv. The link is:

Linking electroweak and gravitational generators.

Most probably, this paper would not have existed without the possibility of performing lots of calculations in Maple, using for instance my own package COSVAM which deals with the octonions, the largest division algebra over the reals.

For instance, the pivotal Eq. (5) of the paper would probably not have been discovered by me using pen and paper. It was accidentally discovered while performing some Maple calculations with a different objective in mind.

Second note added: The issue below seems to have been resolved by clearing the cache of my Firefox browser, i.e., it seems to have been purely a local problem.

A long-time member of mapleprimes, Gerald A. Edgar has recently posted a wonderful paper, "Transseries for beginners" up on the arXiv.  It is elementary[1], but not easy, and written in a very engaging style.  For those interested in the mathematics used in some of the darker corners of Maple, this is a great introduction.

Hi,

I need to work on the classical interface of maple11 on my MacBook Pro (Mac OSX 10.5).

Since Leopard is certified as fully UNIX compliant... I thought I could install this version on my laptop.

First of all, I couldn't see what was on the Maple11 for Linux CD, so I did :

sudo umount /volumes/<device name

then mount into a temporary directory

The new maple ranking page now uses an unconstrained table.  But my screen is really wide, which makes the result really ugly and hard to read!  In most cases, I defnitely prefer unconstrained tables, to take advantage of the full space available, but this is one case where the end results are much worse.  Could it be restored to fixed-width?

I rather liked to get updates telling me that a forum I had posted in had been updated, but now I no longer get those.  Did this feature go away, or did I somehow muck up my settings to remove this option?  [I did remove 'aggressive notification', I hope that was not it, as I do want to keep those separate].

Each time I edit and resubmit a comment, user <blank> gains a point and I lose one.

The points aren't very important, but hey a bug's a bug.

I see the text of  "compose tips" in http://www.mapleprimes.com/filter/tips overlapping the right column.