Maple 9.5 interface

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Since 1988, it has been developed and sold commercially by Waterloo Maple Inc. (also known as Maplesoft), a Canadian company also based in Waterloo, Ontario. The current version is Maple 10. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Maplesoft Corporate Headquarters Waterloo Maple Inc. ...

Introduction

Maple is an interpreted, dynamically typed programming language. As is usual with computer algebra systems, symbolic expressions are stored in memory as directed acyclic graphs. This language is supported by the mathematical editor Scientific Notebook by MacKichan Software. In computer programming, an interpreted language is a programming language whose programs may be executed from source form, by an interpreter. ... In computer science, a datatype or data type (often simply a type) is a name or label for a set of values and some operations which one can perform on that set of values. ... A simple directed acyclic graph In computer science and mathematics, a directed acyclic graph, also called a dag or DAG, is a directed graph with no directed cycles; that is, for any vertex v, there is no nonempty directed path starting and ending on v. ...

Since Maple 6 the language has permitted variables of lexical scope. In computer programming in general, a scope is an enclosing context. ...

Example Maple code

The following code computes an exact solution to the linear ordinary differential equation

subject to initial conditions:

 dsolve( {diff(y(x),x,x) - 3*y(x) = x, y(0)=0, D(y)(0)=2}, y(x) ); 

Past releases

• Maple 10: May 10, 2005
• Maple 9.5: April 15, 2004
• Maple 9: June 30, 2003
• Maple 8: April 16, 2002
• Maple 7: July 1, 2001
• Maple 6: December 6, 1999
• Maple V R5: November 1, 1997
• Maple V R4: January, 1996
• Maple V R3: March 15, 1994
• Maple V R2: November 1992
• Maple V: August, 1990
• Maple 4.3: March, 1989
• Maple 4.2: December, 1987
• Maple 4.1: May, 1987
• Maple 4.0: April, 1986
• Maple 3.3: March, 1985 (first publicly available version)
• Maple 3.2: April, 1984
• Maple 3.1: October, 1983
• Maple 3.0: May, 1983
• Maple 2.2: December, 1982
• Maple 2.15: August, 1982
• Maple 2.1: June, 1982
• Maple 2.0: May, 1982
• Maple 1.1: January, 1982
• Maple 1.0: January, 1982

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Versions available

Maplesoft sells both student and professional editions of Maple, with a substantial difference in price (US$139 compared to US$1,995.00, respectively).

Recent student editions (from version 6 onwards) have not placed computational limitations but rather come with less printed documentation. This is similar to the difference between Mathematica's student and professional editions. This article is about computer software. ...

In releases prior to version 6, the student edition has had the following computational limitations:

• A maximum of 100 in floating point digits for computations and display.
  
• A maximum size of 8000 (in machine words or objects contained) for any algebraic object.
  
• A maximum of 3 dimensions for arrays.

See also

Wikibooks has more about this subject:

Maple

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• MaplePrimes
• Waterloo Maple - the creator & distributor of Maple
• Scientific Notebook, a math editor compatible with Maple and MuPAD
• Open Source/Freeware Competitors:
  • SAGE (GPL)
  • Axiom (BSD license), Aldor
  • Maxima (GPL)
  • EigenMath (freeware)
• Commercial Competitors:
  • MAGMA - available from the University of Sydney
  • MATLAB - available from MathWorks
  • Mathematica from Wolfram Research
  • MuPAD - available from SciFace Software GmbH

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External links

• Maplesoft, division of Waterloo Maple, Inc. home website