Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, 3rd Edition

B.2 Some Commands

The following are some Maple commands that are used in the examples. Some, such as phi, are built into Maple. Others, such as addell, are in the Maple notebook available at

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If you want to suppress the output, use a colon instead.

The argument of a function is enclosed in round parentheses. Vectors are enclosed in square brackets. Entering matrix(m,n,[a,b,c,...,z]) gives the $m\times n$ matrix with first row a,b, ... and last row ...z. To multiply two matrices $A$ and $B\text{,}$ type evalm(A&*B).

If you want to refer to the previous output, use %. The next-to-last output is %%, etc. Note that % refers to the most recent output, not to the last displayed line. If you will be referring to an output frequently, it might be better ...