[Maple8]Trouble with entering expression. - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

phukraut · 04-15-2005, 06:40 PM

Is this type of expression possible in Maple 8 (or any Maple for that matter)?

I want to be able to enter the left side as a function, and have Maple know that it is meant to be the right side. [n_m,m=1..M] is like a sequence of indices, but is not generated until the product index is incremented. Any ideas?

04-19-2005, 07:07 AM

What's Maple8? I've not heard of it before?

phukraut · 04-19-2005, 02:29 PM

Maple is not really a programming language, but rather a program for performing symbolic mathematics, sort of like matlab being for data manipulation. It has a language, like matlab, and you can write loops structures, functions and procedures, etc.

What I want to do above seems very much a formal manipulation to make the expression look tighter, so I'm not sure if Maple can actually understand such an expression.

04-15-2005, 06:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
phukraut Addict	[Maple8]Trouble with entering expression. Is this type of expression possible in Maple 8 (or any Maple for that matter)? I want to be able to enter the left side as a function, and have Maple know that it is meant to be the right side. [n_m,m=1..M] is like a sequence of indices, but is not generated until the product index is incremented. Any ideas?

04-19-2005, 07:07 AM	#2 (permalink)
zen_tom Guest	What's Maple8? I've not heard of it before?

04-19-2005, 02:29 PM	#3 (permalink)
phukraut Addict	Maple is not really a programming language, but rather a program for performing symbolic mathematics, sort of like matlab being for data manipulation. It has a language, like matlab, and you can write loops structures, functions and procedures, etc. What I want to do above seems very much a formal manipulation to make the expression look tighter, so I'm not sure if Maple can actually understand such an expression.