User Guide

Preface

The Maple Software

The Maple

software is a powerful system that you can use to solve complex

mathematical problems. You can also create professional quality documents,

presentations, and custom interactive computational tools in the Maple en-

vironment.

You can access the power of the Maple computational engine through a

variety of interfaces.

DescriptionInterface

Full-featured graphical user interface offering features

that help you create electronic documents that show all

your assumptions, the calculations, and any margin of

error in your results; or hide the computations to allow

your reader to focus on the problem setup and final res-

ults. The advanced formatting features help you create

the customized document you need. Because the docu-

ments are live, you can edit the parameters and, with the

click of a button, compute the new results.

The User Manual was created using the Standard

Worksheet interface to Maple. An interactive version of

this manual is available in the Standard Worksheet inter-

face. From the Help menu, select Manuals, Dictionary,

and more>Manuals>User Manual.

Standard Worksheet

Basic worksheet environment for older computers with

limited memory.

Classic Worksheet

Command-line interface, without graphical user inter-

faces features, for solving very large complex problems

or batch processing with scripts.

Command-line version

Graphical calculator interface to the Maple computational

engine. Using it, you can perform simple computations

and create customizable, zoomable graphs.

Maplesoft

Graphing Calculator

(Microsoft® Windows® only)

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