User Guide

You can format text in a text region. Features include:
• Character styles
• Paragraph styles
• Sections and subsections
• Tables
For more information on formatting documents, see Creating Mathematical
Documents (page 231).
2.9 Names
Instead of re-entering an expression every time you need it, you can assign
it to a name or add an equation label to it. Then you can quickly refer to the
expression using the name or an equation label reference. For information
on labels, see the following section Equation Labels (page 59).
Assigning to Names
You can assign any Maple expression to a name: numeric values, data
structures, procedures (a type of Maple program), and other Maple objects.
Initially, the value of a name is itself.
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The assignment operator (:=) associates an expression with a name.
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