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Lesson 1 - The Basics: Maple's Constants
Lesson 1 - The Basics: Maple's Constants
Maple's Constants
There are three constants that are important for us. Maple knows these constants as "Pi", "I" and "infinity".
> evalf(Pi); NOTE the capital P here. Typing "pi" instead of "Pi" is one of the
most common errors made by first year students.
Maple uses I for the square root of -1. Try the following two
Maple commands.
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Constants 20/04/2015 8:56 pm
Maple has some special symbols that represent Use Maple to verify the well known result that e to the
constants, in particular, "Pi", "I" and "infinity". power of i times , that is ei, is -1.
Beware: "e" in Maple is not the mathematical constant There are lots of ways to go wrong here, so here are
you might expect. some hints:
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