Maplesoft just posted a new page giving more details on the upcoming version of Maple 11 for Windows Vista.

Maplesoft is currently working to ensure that Maple 11 is compatible with Windows Vista.

This web page contains information describing the current status of Maple 11 support for Vista and how you will be able to receive it when it becomes available. This information will be updated frequently as Maplesoft prepares to support Vista.
  The Vista version of Maple 11 will be available in the coming weeks.  Current Maple 11 users will be notified via email as soon as it is available.  Users can also check this page for updates.
  It will be available to all users running Maple 11 via a download that will be accessible through this web page. Users will need their purchase code used at the time of purchase to download the software. There will also be an option to order a CD copy.  More details to come.

Has anyone here ever been involved with Cambridge's mathematical tripos exams in any way ? For example as an examiner, test taker or coach ? I've always heard of this exam with respect to biographies of famous mathematicians, and to me it's surrounded by a lot of lore and mystery. Does any of the colleges of Cambridge also have the actual tests of many of these famous people archived, dating back from the 17th or 18th century ? v/r,

For some reason, whenever I make a 2D plot in Maple 11, the line always seems to be 'wobbly', not completely smooth like it should be. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks

I must admit that I have a lot of fun looking at the evolution over time of the Maple Rankings. I'll use this blog entry for some commentary, because it's fun to record these snapshots.

Why isn't it still possible to easily create and play sound like with Mathematica?????

I'm preparing for the GRE and would like to know if anyone thinks Maple can help ? Has anyone here ever used Maple to prepare for the quantitative section of the GRE ? Is there an application related to the GRE in the maple application center on the maplesoft site ? respectfully,

If anyone is familiar with the partially solved encrypted message in a piece of art on the grounds of the C.I.A, does anyone think Maple would be useful for this problem ? respectfully,

I was mulling over an example that behaved differently when cut and pasted in a Document (2dmath input) and a Worksheet (1dmath maple input). The example was this,

M := Matrix([a]);
N := Matrix([b]);
(M.N)[1,1];
(M.N+N)[1, 1];

The last line of that, in Maple 11.00, produces the product of the list [1,1] and the addition M.N+N, instead of indexing into that sum's Matrix result as it does with 1dmath input.

Is that a bug? Clearly there are...

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Maple uses the GnuMP (a.k.a. GMP, or gmp) library in computing with large integers, see ?gmp .

Visiting the GMP web page one can find this interesting benchmark table. It indicates a higher known benchmark for Opteron/Athlon64 than for Core2. (I don't know that GMP makes special use of multiple cores at this time.)

Hey all, I've been using Maple for a while, and for the most part, my scripts/procs have been pretty small, but they're steadily getting bigger. When they're too big to enter directly into a worksheet I use Vi which has worked great, but it'd still be nice if there was an editor designed to work a bit more closely with Maple. Anyway, this summer I'll have some time off, and I was thinking about writing a language-aware editor for Maple. Is this something that you, as Maple users, would find useful? If there's enough interest, I'll probably start working on it next week. Also, if anyone's interested in contributing, I'll certainly be writing it in either GPL Qt (C++) or Java (MFC runetime characteristics probably aren't that important for an editor :) ).

Hello, I'm a PhD candidate student in Chemical Engineering.

My Lab is about to purchase a new computer. Our budget is about 3000-3500 Euros (~ 4000-4800 USD).

Our main research interests are Process Control and Optimization in Chemical Engineering. We rely heavily on Maple for symbolic calculations and Matlab for simulations and numerical calculations.

We already have a few P4's but they have proven inadequate for a number of tasks so we were thinking about purchasing a more powerful system. A cluster system has been one of the suggestions but we are not sure how to employ it, given that most of our code is designed to be linear (we are not programmers by profession, only by -informal- training). A friend (a software engineer) suggested a system with 4 dual core processors and lots of fast RAM as his best bet.

I recently got emailed a .sxc file. I did not know what that was, so off too Google I go, and find the site fileinfo.net which lists lots of extensions. There I am enlightened: OpenOffice spreadsheet format.

But then I was curious. So I look up .ms, .mws, .mw and .nb. Results:

.mw	Text	MacWrite Text Document
.mws	Audio	MWave DSP Synth Instrument Extract
.nb	Data	Mathematica Notebook

No entry for .ms. Why is this?

Regarding to Maple 10 Concurrent Network license. Actually I have changed the static IP address for the licence holder of the Maple 10 network license. Thus I can't open maple worksheet anymore. Therefore how could I solve this problem?

I got spammed by Wolfram, touting their new Mathematica 6. Being the curious person that I am, I went over to take a look. First: their marketing material is slick. Very slick. It makes you think that they've invented some nifty new stuff -- until you look just a bit more and realize that some of it has been in Maple for ages. And some of these ideas were invented by Maplesoft, and yet Wolfram markets them better. Very devious - and I am sure will be very successful with a lot of customers! Second: it's good. It looks like it warrants the major upgrade hoopla. The new features are very tightly integrated. I mean, in the case of Mathematica, the language and the user interface are now one-and-the-same. You can programmatically access the whole interface (live!), and you can use interface components in any program. This is going to give Maple 11 some serious competition.