Symbolic
and Numeric Math
The Maple computation engine combines high-performance numeric computations
with world-leading symbolic capabilities. Maple’s hybrid system
provides many advantages:
- Maple allows you to work with exact quantities such as fractions,
radicals, and symbols, eliminating accumulated round-off errors.
- Approximations
can be computed at any precision that is required, and are not restricted
by hardware limitations.
- You can choose from a variety of approximate
and exact techniques, as best suits your needs.
- Maple allows you to
defer numeric approximations until they are needed, using symbolic
parameters in your problem instead. The parameters are then carried
through each stage in your analysis, making it easy to do parameter
sweeps, optimize values, and study the behavior of the system.
- Symbolic
computations allow you to obtain highly accurate results, eliminate
the need to simplify problems by hand, and provide insight into your
problem structure from which you can develop conjectures and conclusions
about the behavior.
- Internally, Maple’s solvers can also use a
combination of symbolic and numeric techniques, allowing it to solve
problems for which either approach alone would be insufficient.
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