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Maple is a high level programming language with strong built-in symbolic, numerical and graphic capabilities. The current version installed on Abel is Maple 8. Maple's strengths can be compared with Mathematica. You start up maple from the commandline with "maple" (teminal mode) or with "xmaple" (worksheet). Here is an example, how to use Maple in a terminal. After starting up maple, you can use commands like: 
with(linalg):
v1 := vector([1,0,3]);
v2 := vector([1,2,0]);
v3 := vector([1,1,1]);
GramSchmidt({v1,v2,v3});

det([[1,3,4,5],[2,3,4,5],[5,6,2,3],[3,4,2,1]]);

int(sin(t)^8,t);

diff(arccos(x),x);

series(sin(x),x,15);

plot(sin(x),x=1..3);

plot3d(sin(x*y),x=1..3,y=1..3);

fieldplot([-y,x],x=-2..2,y=-2..2);

The graphics commands are better used with xmaple, the GUI version of maple.


Simplicity, Clarity, Generality B.W. Kernighan, R. Pike, in "The Practice of Programming".
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