Manipulating algebraic expressions
Manipulation of numbers, polynomials, rational expressions, and RootOf expressions is discussed in Chapter 2, Numbers and algebraic operators, in Chapter 13, Polynomials and rational expressions, and in Chapter 14, Polynomial equations and factoring polyn
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kamerich, Emic. A guide to Maple / Emic Kamerich. p. cm. Inc1udes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4612-6436-1 ISBN 978-1-4419-8556-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-8556-9 1. Maple (Computer file). 2. Mathematics-Data processing. 1. Title. QA76.95.K355 1998 510' .285'53-dc21 98-30559 Printed on acid-free paper. Maple is a registered trademark ofWaterloo Maple, Inc. © 1999 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. in 1999 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover Ist edition 1999 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission ofthe publisher(Springer Science+Business Media, LLC), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. U se in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, etc., in this publication, even if the former are not especially identified, is not to be taken as a sign that such names, as understood by the Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may accordingly be used freely by anyone.
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Short Reference List This list contains only the most basic Maple commands. AH commands explained in this book can be found in the Catehword Index. Elements of commands that must be typed in literally are printed in a typewriter font, as in the present line, or in a bold font. Elements of eommands that stand for Maple expressions to be ehosen by the user are printed in an italie font, as in the present line.
1 special characters terminator for commands the same, but without printing resuIts to the screen :=
=
used in assignments used in equations, not in assignments
%1 abbreviation (in printed resuIts)
o,
%%,
"
.. "
\!,
%%% refer to last, second last, and third last re-
suIt in Release V.5 (in command lines) ti
"
nil
refer to last, second last, and third last resuIt in releases before V.5
" a pair of double quotes makes the sequence of characters to a string in Release V.5 ,
a pair of single back quotes makes the sequence of characters to a symbol in Release Y.5 and to a string in earlier releases
,
a pair of single forward quotes prevents evaluation used for concatenation of strings or in floating point numbers range
* obligatory muItiplication sign faculty &
prefix for special operators such as &* postfix, indicating a property of a variable (in printed results)
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