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Compatibility with Earlier Versions
Earlier versions of the Symbolic Math Toolboxes work with version 4.0 or 4.1 of MATLAB and Maple V, release 2. The goal was to provide access to Maple with a language syntax that is familiar to MATLAB users. This was been done without modifying either of the two underlying systems.
However, it is not possible to provide completely seamless integration without modifying MATLAB. For example, if f and g are strings representing symbolic expressions, we would prefer to use the notation f+g for their sum, instead of symadd(f,g). But f+g attempts to add the individual characters in the two strings, rather than concatenate them with a plus sign in between. Similarly, if A is a matrix whose elements are symbolic expressions, we would prefer to use A(i,j) to access a individual expression, instead of sym(A,i,j). But if A is a matrix of strings, then A(i,j) is a single character, not a complete expression.
This version of the Symbolic Math Toolboxes makes extensive use of the new MATLAB object capabilities and works with Maple V, release 5. For this reason, it is not fully compatible with version 1 of the Symbolic Math Toolbox.
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