Maple Programming Tips

Where is Help?
Maple has extensive online help build into the program. You should check the MSCS Maple Help Page.

There is a reference card for release 5 prepared by Douglas Meade at Univ. of South Carolina which is very useful. Note this is a postscript file.

Maple Programming Tips
  1. Reptition while

    while condition

    do

    statements

    od;

  2. Reptition for for index from start by change to finish

    do

    statements

    od;

  3. Conditional execution if condition then

    statements1

    else

    statements2

    fi;

  4. Maple procedures

    proc(arguments)

    expressions and statements

    end

Here is a sloppy example of Horner's method programmed in Maple. I was lazy and inserted a list named a which the coefficients of the polynomial directly in the procedure. The usage is: h(x) 

h := proc(x) 
local y, a, i; 
Digits:= 6; 

a := [1.0,-8.0,28.0,-56.0,70.0,-56.0,28.0,-8.0,1.0];
y:= 0; 
for i from 1 to 9 
   do 
        y := y*x+a[i]; 
   od; 
end;
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