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Maple has long been the symbolic mathematics application of choice for thousands of users worldwide in research, science, engineering, finance and education. Now it has a major extra item in its armoury: the seamless integration of Maple symbolics with NAG numerics, allowing for arbitrary-precision numerics.
This combination and potential is something which is not available in standard programming languages such as C and Fortran, and which permits previously unavailable flexibility in numeric computations.
The development is a result of collaboration between Waterloo Maple Inc (Maple's developer) and the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) of Oxford.
NAG has long been known for its highly acclaimed libraries of numerical and statistical algorithms, as well as its own software products. NAG software is widely used by both academia and industry, and in particular by most leading European and North American industrial and government research establishments.
Maple 6 also delivers tight integration with Microsoft Excel 2000. With this link, it's possible to perform symbolic, numeric, and graphical analysis inside a familiar Excel spreadsheet. Think about that for a moment. Symbolic, numeric, and graphical analysis inside Excel!
Maple's own spreadsheets have been enhanced with new data importing and exporting facilities, making it much easier to incorporate, manipulate, and analyse external data. The spreadsheet has also become an integral component of the Maple worksheet, with a set of functions for assigning cells and extracting maths or data from cells so that you can embed a spreadsheet seamlessly into worksheets.
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