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Maple is a general-purpose commercial Computer Algebra System . It was first developed in 1981 by the Symbolic Computation Group at the University Of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario , Canada .

Since 1988 , it has been developed and sold commercially by Waterloo Maple Inc. (also known as '''Maplesoft'''), a Canadian company also based in Waterloo, Ontario. The current version is Maple 10.


INTRODUCTION

Maple is an Interpreted , Dynamically Typed programming language. As is usual with computer algebra systems, symbolic expressions are stored in memory as Directed Acyclic Graph s.

Since Maple 6 the language has permitted variables of lexical Scope .


EXAMPLE MAPLE CODE


The following code computes an exact solution to the linear ordinary differential equation

: rac{d^2y}{dx^2}(x) - 3 y(x) = x

subject to initial conditions: