Maple Commands and Terminology

Here is a list of the Maple commands and terminology that you should be familiar with by the first exam. You can look up the commands in the Maple help system (click on a command and then type Ctrl-F1), or you can look them up in our textbook Maple V Primer (look in the index or in the glossary in Chapter 12), or you can look for examples of their use in the worksheets form class.

Maple commands.
> factor
> expand
> degree
> coeff
> lhs
> rhs
> simplify
> subs
> solve
> assign
> Digits
> fsolve
> frac
> trunc
> evalf
> evalb
> eval
> op
> nops
> whattype
> seq
> sum
> map
arrow notation for Maple functions
> unapply
> proc ... end
> if ... then ... else ... fi
> for ... from ... to ... do ... od
> print
> ifactor

Maple terminology.
left-quotes
right-quotes
double-quotes
colon vs. semi-colon
execution groups
assignment operator (colon equals)
expression trees
expressions vs. functions in Maple
formal parameters
actual parameters
local variables
return value

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