Making mistakes with Maple

Making mistakes with Maple

It has been said that the best students are those who make every possible mistake--once. Piet Hein phrased the sentiment poetically in his 1966 book Grooks:

         THE ROAD TO WISDOM

The road to wisdom? --Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
           Err
           and err
           and err again
           but less
           and less
           and less.

Maple, being a computer program, will make the same mistake over and over. And being a computer program, it does make mistakes, sometimes in collaboration with humans.

The examples below were tested on the following version of Maple 7. Your mileage may vary.

> interface(version);  
Maple Worksheet Interface, Maple 7.00, IBM INTEL LINUX, 
   May 28 2001 Build ID 96223

• Misunderstandings
• Intrinsic limitations
• Integration bugs
• Miscellaneous bugs
• Exercises

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Making mistakes with Maple