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It shouldn't be. Maple is just as much of a black box as Mathematica. That it didn't screw up on this one task is no guarantee it won't screw up others when you
by monochr 12y ago
It shouldn't be. Maple is just as much of a black box as Mathematica. That it didn't screw up on this one task is no guarantee it won't screw up others when you aren't looking. Worse since you can't check the source code you will never know why it failed in any specific case without reverse engineering it.
In fact they say as much towards the end of the paper:
"Both Mathematica and Maple return zero as the
answer to this calculation. Yet this cannot be
correct, because the integrand is clearly positive
and nonzero in the indicated region."
- fdej 12y agoMaple isn't quite as much of a black box as Mathematica. Many of the library functions in Maple are written in Maple and you can easily read their source code.