Hi, Can anybody explain why Maple is crashing? Does it happen with Maple 13? > c:=alpha->solve(-alpha*(alpha+1)+x^(2/alpha),x); # I am too lazy to solve the eq by hand. > c(a); # Maple returns the correct value although that is difficult to see from the text version of the output /1 / 2 \ \ exp|- ln\a + a/ a| \2 / > c(1.5); # This always crashes Maple 12 on my Mac OS 10.5. Maple announces tha the connection to the kernel has been lost and I must restart. thanks,

You can duplicate this in Maple 11 or Maple 12: restart; L:=Array(1..10, j->rand(0..1)()); L := [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1] restart; L:=Array(1..10, j->rand(0..1)()); L := [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1] restart; L:=Array(1..10, j->rand(0..1)()); L := [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1] restart; L:=Array(1..10, j->rand(0..1)()); L := [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1] restart; L:=Array(1..10, j->rand(0..1)()); L := [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1]