About Maple...

Maple is a computer algebra package used to carry out symbolic and numeric calculations.  Maple is a product of Waterloo Maple, Inc.

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Useful Tips

• Defining a procedure:  You can define a procedure for equations that you use frequently.  Suppose you want to do the operation ab+c a lot.  You can set up a function so all you have type is "f(2,4,5)" instead of "2*4+5" (not a great deal of time savings in this example, but I'm sure you can think of cases where it would help).  Here's how:

> f := (a,b,c) -> a*b+c;

f := (a,b,c) -> a b + c

> f(2,4,5);

13

• Maple initialization file:  Look for the file "Maple.INI" in the "lib" subdirectory of your Maple directory.  If it doesn't exist, you can make one using a text editor.  Maple will execute commands in your initialization file each time it starts up.
   
• Handy commands for your initialization file:  The pound sign (#) is a comment; the colon suppresses output from the command:

# Use EE notation for complex numbers
# (use 'j' as sqrt of -1, not I)
alias(I=I, j=sqrt(-1)):

# Report numerical values using a
#reduced number of digits
Digits := 6: