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- From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
- Subject: Re: Maple V Release 2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.203932.10254@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Keywords: Maple
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Nov17.175815.20205@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:39:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.175815.20205@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> monagan@inf.ethz.ch
- (Michael) writes:
- >One of the deficiencies of Maple and other systems is in handling problems
- >which contain symbolic parameters where the result depends on the domain or
- >range of values that the symbolic parameter(s) takes.
-
- Careful there, Michael. That should have read "One of the
- deficiencies of Maple and SOME other systems".
-
- >We are presently looking at alternative solutions including prompting the
- >user for help or returning a solution along with the assumptions made.
-
- Ideally, I could control the behaviour manually. For small
- problems run interactively, I might want Maple to ask about parameter
- ranges. For larger problems, I will either want to input my own
- assumptions or to have Maple tell me which ones it was forced to make.
- If I choose to input my own assumptions, Maple should of course tell me
- about whatever additional assumptions it made.
-
- Marc R. Roussel
- mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
-