I experience Maple 2024 not beeing responsive.

It happens often that nothing is happening for 10 to 15 seconds after placing the cursor in an input line.

When the cursor is back, typing is normal for a little while and then again Maple is not reacting to user input.

The worksheets I am working with are between 50 and 100 Mb large in file size (containing plot3d structures, approx 1000 frames distributed across several plots:-display statements). It looks to me that the GUI has to do some house keeping from time to time which keeps it buisy with all the plot structures.

I could delete (plot) output, but this would require execution of the worksheet (before deleting the output) each time I want to continue working normally. This takes several minutes to be ready to work.

Anything else that I can do?

I am learning patten matching in Maple. 

Any one could explain why patmatch(1, (x::anything)^(n::'nonunit'(anything)))   gives true but patmatch(2, (x::anything)^n::'nonunit'(anything)); gives false?

Download patmatch_question_nov_16_2024.mw

I was expecting result similar to using this other software

I do not understand Maple's result. How could I change the patmatch so it does not match 1 to the pattern x::anything^n::anything where n is not 1 ?

Update

To give context, I was trying to write this example from the other software  in Maple:

But when I wrote this

expr:=1 + x^2 + x^4;

F:=proc(X::anything,x::symbol)
    local la,y,n;
    if patmatch(X, (y::anything)^(n::'nonunit'(anything)) ,'la') then  
       f(eval(n,la));
     else
        X;
     fi;
end proc;

map(X->F(X,x), expr);

Maple gave 

So I modified the code now to check for explicit 1,  to avoid this bad match, like this

expr:=1 + x^2 + x^4;

F:=proc(X::anything,x::symbol)
    local la,y,n;
    if patmatch(X, (y::anything)^(n::'nonunit'(anything)) ,'la') then  
        if eval(y,la)=1 then #bug in maple?
           X;
        else
           f(eval(n,la));
        fi;
     else
        X;
     fi;
end proc;

map(X->F(X,x), expr);

And now it gives expected result

Given list L:=[3,4,x,x^2,x^3]; return list of all exponents of x (other than 1). So result should be [2,3]

But this has to be done using patmatch, as this is what I am learning. Not using other means. This is my current code that does this.

restart;
L:=[3,4,x,x^2,x^3];
f:=proc(X::anything,x::symbol)
 local la,n;
 if patmatch(X,x^n::nonunit(anything),'la') then
    assign(la);
    RETURN(n);
 else
    RETURN(NULL);
 fi;
end proc;

map(X->f(X,x),L);

Returns [2,3]

I wanted to shorten it using `if` so that no need to call external function f() as shown. So I wrote

L:=[3,4,x,x^2,x^3];
map(X->`if`( patmatch(X,x^n::anything,'la'),[assign(la), n],NULL),L);

But the problem is that on first entry, the assign(la) now assigns value to n and hence it is no longer a name for the next element in the list L. This gives error

Error, (in PatternMatching:-AlgStruct:-Match) first operand of `::' must be a name
So I added  unassign('n') like this

restart;
L:=[3,4,x,x^2,x^3];
map(X->[unassign('n'),`if`( patmatch(X,x^n::nonunit(anything),'la'),[assign(la), n],NULL)][],L);

And now this returns 

            [[2], [3]]

How to make it return [2,3]? Why did it add extra []? How can the above be shortened more? and still return [2,3]

edit: I found how to get rid of the extra [], like this

restart;
L:=[3,4,x,x^2,x^3];
map(X->[unassign('n'),`if`( patmatch(X,x^n::nonunit(anything),'la'),[assign(la), n][],NULL)][],L);

Now it returns [2,3] , needed to add extra [] after each closing [.....]

In another system, the code is 

Cases[{3, 4, x, x^2, x^3}, x^n_ -> n]

    {2, 3}
   

I was trying to make the Maple code as short as possible. I know it will not be as short as the above.

The question is: Can above code be made shorter but still use patmatch?

Again, I am looking for only solution using patmatch. I know I can use select and types in Maple to do this also.

Maple 2024.2

Is there another way to change the x-axis values other than tickmarks? For example on an interval [0,4*Pi]

Download directly_integrable.mw

A farmer has exactly 100m of wire mesh fence available to enclose a pasture. The fence must begin and end at his large oak tree. To do this, imagine the usual "north-south/west-east" cross of the cardinal directions in the drawing plane. The oak tree is at the center of this.

1. All land that lies west of the imaginary axis is not worth a cent.

2. All land that lies east of the oak tree becomes continuously more expensive the further it is from the north-south axis. The property value is based on the function y = k · x, where y represents the price per square meter and x represents the distance in meters to the north-south axis. k is a proportionality factor, which for the task is k = 1 euro/m^3.

a) On which curve must the fence run so that the enclosed pasture area has the greatest possible value?

b) On which curve must the fence run if instead of the distance x from the north-south axis the distance r from the oak tree is decisive with the same factor k?

I was watching Maple's video for conference 2024. In one of the presentation, this example is given

But in my Mapple 2024.2 I get an error typing the same command:

Download powerSeries_nov_14_2024.mw

Link to the video is here  it is around 39:00 in time. 

Any one knows why I get an error using same command shown in the video?

I tried connecting Maple to Jupyter Notebook, but it seems that it is not keen on outputting everything within the for loop; it only outputs the last item.

for i from 1 to 24 do
    print(i);
end do;

I've noticed that the Maple interface is always white, and after a long time, it causes eye strain. I wonder if it's possible to adjust the interface color, similar to Mathematica. My system is Windows 11.

Currently, I often use VSCode as an alternative, but some mathematical symbols don't display very clearly.

I have noticed similar discussions, such as this one, but I don’t know how to do it

In the attachment are three plotting issues that might be (partially) related.

 
Jagged shading     

Loss of color and incomplete clipping

The last one is the most severe because it takes color away when a plotobject is inside another object.

How can this be fixed? Explanations always welcome.

Shading_artefacs_and_lost_labels_and_color.mw

I have been working on solving a system of PDEs and plotting the results. However I've been encountered issues with setting the spacestep and timestep parameters.

First of all, i attempted to plot graphs t=0..2 using the animate command,

with spacestep = 5*10^-4 x 1/151,          timestep=1/1000

However, as shown in the image, an error ocurred indicating that calculations could not proceed after 1.57 sec.

Secondly, i kept the same spacestep but changed the timestep to 1/100 for plotting graphs 
t=0..2. This time, the graphs were plotted without any issues.

I initially beleved that larger spacesteps or timesteps would produce more accurate data. However, in my case, simply increasing these parameters did not work.

I would greatly appreciate if you could provide guidance on what factors should be considered when setting timestep and spacestep parameters, or any experiences in resolving similar issues.

Looks like this

From: dsolve_numeric_output_with_extra_brackets.mw

which was derived from a 2d document where I removed all unnecessary overhead.

When the option output=listprocedure is removed, this extra argument is not shown any more.

With that extra argument substitution of a solution into the corresponding ode(s) is not possible.

Any idea why that is? How to avoid or remove it?

What we are looking for is a flat polygon with N corners and side lengths 1,..., N, which has a maximum surface area.
BTW:
1.) I am a Maple newbie and would like to get to know the diversity and power of the Maple world. For this reason, I occasionally post tasks here from various areas of mathematics and of varying difficulty levels in order to learn from the answers. Of course, I know the solutions to these tasks. So these are not homework.
2.) I have difficulty subsequently inserting text at any point in working worksheets. I keep getting error messages because "or" or ";" is missing. What am I doing wrong?

Continuing from my previous post on "Exploring Oscillators: A Simple Pendulum Worksheet," we now dive deeper into the fascinating progression of oscillatory systems—from linear oscillations to complex, nonlinear dynamics with chaotic behaviors. This post examines how adjusting parameters in oscillatory models, such as the Duffing oscillator, reveal rich dynamics, including resonance and chaos.