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Index • 297plotting, 56, 104display, 127, 135, 207displayinganimations, 121ditto operator, 8divide, 61divisioninteger quotient, 8integer remainder, 9polynomial, 17, 61dodecahedron, 135Domains, 79double quotes, 30dsolve, 70–75, 232explicit, 234implicit, 234method=laplace, 235startinit, 246type=numeric, 244type=series, 241e (exponential function), 11echo, 273eigenvalues, 90eigenvectors, 90empty_list, 24empty_set, 24equationsleft-hand side, 38right-hand side, 38solving, 43, 54solving systems of, 44error functions, 15errorsfloating-point, 13relative, 11eval, 45, 46, 61, 70, 71, 186, 192evalf, 9, 12, 206evalm, 28evaln, 196evaluatingarrays, 28, 192local variables, 195matrices, 192procedures, 192tables, 192evaluation, 191–203and quoting, 197and substitution, 188assigned, 196at a point, 45delayed, 197evaln, 196forcing full, 193full, 191last-name, 192levels of, 192numerical, 9, 12one-level, 195to a name, 196exact arithmetic, 8exact numbers, analytic description,11exact vs. approximate results, 8–10exp, 11Expand, 148expand, 16, 33, 146vs. simplify, 34expanded normal form, 36expandingmodulo m, 148polynomials, 33explicit functions, plotting, 97exponential function, 11, 15exportingas Maple text, 278as plain text, 278HTML, 281HTML with MathML, 281L A TEX, 279RTF, 283