Maple Programming Tips
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Maple Programming Tips
- Reptition while
while condition
do
statements
od;
- Reptition for
for index from start by change to finish
do
statements
od;
- Conditional execution
if condition then
statements1
else
statements2
fi;
- Maple procedures
proc(arguments)
expressions and statements
end
Here is a sloppy example of Horner's method programmed in Maple. I was lazy
and inserted a list named a which the coefficients of the polynomial
directly in the procedure. The usage is: h(x)
h := proc(x)
local y, a, i;
Digits:= 6;
a := [1.0,-8.0,28.0,-56.0,70.0,-56.0,28.0,-8.0,1.0];
y:= 0;
for i from 1 to 9
do
y := y*x+a[i];
od;
end;
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