# 1.1 Maple as a Calculator # Art Belmonte, Summer 1996 # These are the shaded gray examples which appear in Section 1.1. > restart; 2+5; 7 # This is a peculiar result: the constant function 6 evaluated at 2. > (2+4)(3-1); 6 # Ah, that's more like it! > (2+4)*(3-1); 12 > (1+3) / 6; 2/3 > evalf(22/79 + 34/23); 1.756741882 # Note the difference in the last digit due to round-off. > 22.0/79 + 34/23; 1.756741883 >