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296 • Indexspherical, 114viewing, 97counting, 38creatinglists, 21creating functionswith arrow notation, 52with unapply, 49, 71CurveFitting, 78, 111cutout, 139cylinderplot, 117cylindrical coordinates, 117cylindrical coordinates, animations,124D, 227, 233, 247data points, plotting, 109data types, 19decimal forms, 10decimal numbers, 11–13declaring arraysone-dimensional, 25two-dimensional, 26, 27decomposition, polynomial, 64definingdiscontinuous functions, 104functions, with arrow notation,52functions, with unapply, 49,71defining arraysone-dimensional, 25two-dimensional, 26, 27defining functions, 18definite integrals, 68, 225degree, 62degree of polynomial, 62delaying evaluation, 197denom, 38, 178denominators, 38, 178common, 35, 155isolate, 38densityplot, 132DEplot, 252DEplot3d, 255derivatives, 16, 67, 205limit definition of, 206partial, 214, 228describe, 92DESol, 251determining number of elements(nops), 22, 23DEtools, 79dialog, see Maplets,dialogDiff, 67, 83diff, 185diffalg, 79differential equationsordinary, 70, 232partial, 261solving, 51systems of, 75differentiatingexpressions in a list, 37differentiation, 16, 83difforms, 79Digits, 12digitsin floating-point calculations,default, 12in floating-point calculations,setting, 12in floating-point calculations,setting globally, 12maximum length of floatingpointapproximations, 11maximum length of integers,7Dirac, 72, 258Dirac delta function, 15, 72, 258discontinuous functionsdefining, 104