New features that have been added to Maple for version V

Symbolic Computation Group
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1
Canada

• Development of improved user interfaces
  • X Window interface
  • 3-Dimensional graphics
  • New arrow syntax for specifying operators (functions)
  • Sorting polynomials
  • Improved display of output
  • User defined formatting routines
  • New help syntax and user defined help routines
• New and enhanced mathematical facilities
  • New mathematical functions known to Maple
  • Enhanced numerical facilities
  • Enhanced integration facilities
  • The derivative operator D
  • Enhanced limit and series facilities
  • Definite sums and products over roots of polynomials
  • Transforms
  • Polynomial factorization and root finding
  • Arithmetic over finite fields (Galois fields)
• New library functions
• New library packages
• New functionality in library packages
  • combinat (combinatorial functions package)
  • linalg (linear algebra package)
  • numtheory (number theory package)
  • stats (statistics package)
• New and enhanced system facilities
  • Type testing in Maple V
  • Debugging facilities
  • Sequences and for loops
  • Table and array entries
  • Procedure execution
  • Language translation facilities
• Algorithmic improvements
  • Polynomial Gcd's
  • Polynomial resultants
  • Arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic
  • Computation of Pi
  • Integration of rational functions
  • Polynomial root finding over finite rings
• Miscellaneous changes
• Contacts
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