The prompter is >
Each command is terminated by a semi colon (;) or a colon (:).
;the result is showed.
:
the result is not showed.
Maple is case sensitive. Comments start with # and run to the end of the line.
> k!; denotes k factorial.
Exponentiation is written ^ or ** .
The logarithm function is called ln.
is exp(Pi*I).
is called infinity.
For numerical evaluation apply evalf.
The repetition operator, $, is very useful. The dot-operator (.) denotes concatenation. The composition operator is written @.
``The latest expression'' is called by ". The latest expression but one is "" etc. For a history encompassing more than the three latest expressions returned, use the command history. Here are some examples
> ln(3^2);
ln(9)
> evalf(");
2.197224577
> [0$4];
[0, 0, 0, 0]
> {$1..5};
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
> diff(x(t),t$6): #Sixth derivative of x(t) w.r.t. t
> x.(1..4);
x1, x2, x3, x4
> (sin@arcsin)(x);
x
The function convert(expr,type) converts between different data types.
If you run Maple under UNIX, clear the screen by typing > !clear; (Thus ! means ``escape to host''.)
For translation of an expression into , type > latex(expr,foo);
The second argument, which is optional, is a file name.
There are similar functions for C and FORTRAN.