Maple V Release 4

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What is Maple V Release 4?

As a serious challenger to Wolfram Research’s Mathematics, Maple V had three deficiencies: it wasn't Power Mac native, its graphics lacked many 3-D display features, and it offered no simple way to get textbook-format equations on screen. The latest release of Waterloo Maple’s mathematics software not only corrects those shortcomings, it makes Maple the best choice for users with hardware limitations or demanding speed requirements.

The program is almost twice as big as it was a year ago, but it actually runs faster. Waterloo Maple has added a plot-tools package that brings Maple close to Mathematical graphics capabilities; enhanced differential and partial differential equation-solving; enlarged the special-functions libraries to handle most physics and engineering eases; and added tensor analysis. And not only do Maple V documents look like math rather than programming-language text, but they also contain hyperlinks — even the online help is now hyperlinked.

Mathematics 3.0, still in beta at review rime, remains the leader in certain areas. Its signal-processing facilities are excellent; its implementation of a palette-based math-notation entry system for rich document formatting is brilliant; and its collection of user-contributed notebooks is much larger than Maple’s analogous Share Library. Outside these areas, however, Maple’s speed and relative simplicity — you can learn enough to do something useful in an hour — are key advantages.

Recognizing that 150MHz Power Macs with 64MB of RAM are still a rarity in classrooms, Waterloo Maple designed the full implementation of Maple to run on an 8MB Mac; a separate command-line version is included that can run with room to spare in 4MB. That version has essentially no interface or graphics overhead, so it’s great for high-speed computation on problems coded in the full-blown Maple interface. And its really fast — the math tests that Macworld Lab used in a recent roundup of science software run so quickly on a Power Mac 7100/80 they can’t even be timed in command-line mode. The command-line program’s speed at diagonalizing a 20-by-20 matrix on a PowerBook 145B is an amazing spectacle; its unlikely that Mathematica will ever run on such a humble box again.

The Last Word Maple has an edge over Mathematical in both large-scale, hours-long computations and the small-scale computations typical of education. Release 4 is the fastest, most complete version yet, and its modest hardware requirements will appeal to budget-minded math sites.

Seiter, Charles. (November 1996). Maple V Release 4. Macworld. (pg. 96).


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Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II





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