I have one awful, long way to solve the problem below, but I am sure there is also an elegant solution; unfortunately, it currently escapes me. Consider a rigid sphere of radisu 1 and center at 0 that rotates about its center. The angular velocity is omega(t) = Vector([ cos(t), sin(t), sqrt(3) ]). Does the path of the point starting at (0,0,1) ever reach the same point at a later time?

From an exercise in "Game Physics", we have the following piecewise position vector r. We wish to show that it is well-defined (as well as twice differentiable) at 0. The goal of the exercise is then to show that the Normal vector is not even continuous. So we try: p1,p2 := <t,t^3,0>, <t,0,t^3>; r := piecewise( t<0, p1, p2); limit(r,t=0,left); and unfortunately that limit gives RTABLE(149559852,MATRIX([[t], [t^3], [0]]),Vector[column]) as a result! The obvious thing to try next is to "push in" the piecewise into the components. But the

Is there a keyboard-only way to enter equation labels that will not 'zap' the focus away to a dialog box just to enter a label? While the 'look' of the equation labels is kind of nice, I find entering them extremely annoying (zapping focus is really awful UI design).

A user in Ireland is trying to learn Maple programming, and got stuck on trying to reproduce the examples on p.49 of the Introductory Programming Guide. First, I suspected it might have had to do with 2D mode (it doesn't, it works on Windows), so I asked him to try in the TTY version. The results there were really weird: What could be the problem? Is this Mac-only? Is this some locale issue?

Does anyone know who the author of the Scientific Computing blog on blogspot?