{VERSION 3 0 "IBM INTEL NT" "3.0" } {USTYLETAB {CSTYLE "Hyperlink" -1 17 "" 0 1 0 128 128 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "Help Heading" -1 26 "" 1 14 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 } {PSTYLE "Normal" -1 0 1 {CSTYLE "" -1 -1 "" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }0 0 0 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 }{PSTYLE "Heading 1" 0 3 1 {CSTYLE "" -1 -1 "" 1 18 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }1 0 0 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 }} {SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 26 7 "Advice:" }{TEXT -1 22 " Can Maple be trusted?" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 " " {TEXT -1 542 "Any very large software project has bugs, and Maple ha s plenty of them. You should not have blind faith in Maple, or any ot her computer algebra system, or a human for that matter. Use the same general guidelines that you might apply to something one of your coll eagues might have come up with (after a long and complicated calculati on): first ask yourself if the answer appears to be reasonable, and th en check it if possible. Try some special cases, a different method o f calculating the answer, or verify some consequences of the answer." }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 167 "In a s ituation where an error might have serious consequences, be especially diligent in checking the answer. You might even try it on another com puter algebra system." }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 26 10 "See also: " }{HYPERLNK 17 "Finding a bug " 2 "Finding_a_bug" "" }}}{SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 26 23 "Maple A dvisor Database " }{TEXT -1 15 " R. Israel 1997" }}}{PARA 3 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}}{MARK "3 0 1" 9 } {VIEWOPTS 1 1 0 3 2 1804 }