The following example shows clearly that timelimit is still broken in Maple.

I tried this 10 times, and it hangs each time. I could wait 30 minutes and it still hangs. timelimit simply does not work. I set timelimit to 20 or 30 seconds.  This really makes developing software in Maple very difficult when timelimit itself hangs as it means the whole program comes to halt and becomes frozen and I see no workaround this problem.

Does this hang on your version of Maple? I am using 2022.2 on windows 10.

I was hoping this problem with timelimit has finally been fixed in Maple 2022.2. From this post almost 2 years ago!  it says

"You will also be pleased to know that Maple 2021 addresses the timelimit() issue that you mentioned."

But it is clearly not yet fixed.

Some important observations

1) sometimes I noticed if timelimit is small (say 5 or 10), it does not hang. So it the above does timeout for you, please try with larger time out, say 40 or 60 seconds. Since it depens on how fast the PC is.

2)sometimes I  noticed if I close Maple and start new sesstion, the very first time it could timeout OK, but the second time it is called, it hangs. May be because the server caches something to cause this.

All this means, it is completely not predictable what wil happen when starting the maple run. I have no idea how long it will take from one time to another, or even if it will hang or not. For all the years I used Maple, I never had one single time where one run completed without having to restart it at least 2 or 3 times in order to reach the finish line.  This is in addition to all those server.exe crashing on its own many times in between. I noticed more and more of these in Maple 2022.2.  But that is for another topic.

The following screen shot showing one instance when I run the above timelimit (been wainting now for 15 minutes, using timeout of 30 second)., It shows Maple server taking 81% of the CPU

And the following is screen shot of the worksheet itself when I took the above screen shot

Download timelimit_hangs_on_odeadvisor.mw

I was trying New-Display-Of-Arbitrary-Constants-And-Functions- but found a small problem.

in my code I build the constants of integrations using parse("_C"||N); where N is an integer that can go up to as many constants of integration are needed. For example, for 4th order ode, there will be 4 of them.

I noticed only the first 2 come out using the nice c__1,c__2 notation, but anything after 2 ,they come out using old notation _C3, _C4.

Here is a MWE

So now my solution comes out with mixed looking constants. Why does this happen for N>2?

Download problem_with_C.mw

So for now, I went back to using the old method of using alias as follows

Download problem_with_C_alias.mw

Is this new in Maple 2022.2 or was it there before? I have no way now to verify. Could someone please check? I am not using assuming anywhere, so this must be internal.
 

Maple 2022.2 on windows 10

Download dsolve_nov_10_2022.mw

This integral produces very large result and division by zero when simplified. I do not have earlier version of Maple to check if this is a new problem or not

f:=1/(3*u^(2/3)+3*((-4*u^(1/3)+1)*u^(4/3))^(1/2)-12*u);
anti:=int(f,u);
MmaTranslator:-Mma:-LeafCount(anti);
simplify(anti)

For reference, this is Mathematica's results with leaf count only 35 instead of 41,385 and no problem when simplifying.

f=1/(3*u^(2/3)+3*((-4*u^(1/3)+1)*u^(4/3))^(1/2)-12*u)
anti=Integrate[f,u]
LeafCount[anti]
Simplify[anti]

Could someone please check if this fails same way on earlier Maple version?

in the context of solving an ode, sometimes the constant of integration that will satisfy an initial condition is +infinity or -infinity.

But Maple's solve does not find such solutions to the constant of integration. It only can solve for finite value if it can.

When this happens, I manually try taking the limit as the constant of integration goes to +- infinity, until I get an equation where both sides are the same or fail, and then give up.

I was wondering if there is a way or different command/package which will find solution such as infinity (which is valid solution to constant of integration).

Here are two examples

ode:=diff(y(x),x)=1/(LambertW(-exp(-1+_C1+x))+1);
ic:=[diff(y(x),x)=1,x=0];
eq2:=eval(ode,ic);
solution_for_constant := solve(eq2,_C1,'allsolutions'=true,'tryhard'=true);

Maple can not solve for _C1. It gives

But when trying manually few values, I find that _C1=-infinity satisfies the equation

limit(rhs(eq2),_C1=0);
limit(rhs(eq2),_C1=1);
limit(rhs(eq2),_C1=-1);
limit(rhs(eq2),_C1=infinity);
limit(rhs(eq2),_C1=-infinity);

The above shows that _C1 = -infinity is the constant of integration. Another simpler example

eq:=exp(-1 + _C1) = 0;
solution_for_constant:=solve(eq,_C1) assuming real;
limit(lhs(eq),_C1=-infinity)

The above shows that _C1=-infinity is solution for exp(-1+C_1)=0.  which one can see by just looking at it as exp(-infinity)=0.  Adding assumptions did not help.I also tried symbolic option.

I am not familar with SolveTools package, may there is something there.

So for now, my code just try the limit until it finds solution or gives up.

Any suggestions if Maple itself can find such solutions?

Maple 2022.2