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Maple 9 Learning Guide - Maplesoft

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2.3 Basic Symbolic Computations • 17> (1 + x)^2;(1 + x) 2> (1 + x) + (3 - 2*x);4 − xNote that <strong>Maple</strong> automatically simplifies the second expression.<strong>Maple</strong> has hundreds of commands for working with symbolic expressions.For a partial list, see Table 2.2.> expand((1 + x)^2);1 + 2 x + x 2> factor(%);(1 + x) 2As mentioned in 2.2 Numerical Computations, the ditto operator,%, is a shorthand notation for the previous result.> Diff(sin(x), x);ddx sin(x)> value(%);cos(x)> Sum(n^2, n);∑nn 2> value(%);13 n3 − 1 2 n2 + 1 6 n

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