SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION...................................................................................... 2 ABOUT THE DOCUMENT .................................................................................................. 2 MAPLE INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................... 2 ACCESS TO MAPLE........................................................................................................... 2 GETTING STARTED........................................................................................................... 3 THE MAPLE WINDOW ...................................................................................................... 4 THE HELP WINDOW ......................................................................................................... 5 BASIC CONVENTIONS IN MAPLE ...................................................................................... 7 BASIC DATA STRUCTURES IN MAPLE .............................................................................. 9 SECTION 3. NUMERICAL COMPUTATION........................................................... 10 FLOATING POINT NUMBER COMPUTATION .................................................................... 10 INTEGER COMPUTATIONS............................................................................................... 11 COMPLEX NUMBER COMPUTATION ................................ ...