-----maxima-admin@math.utexas.edu wrote: -----
>This last bit -- apply (addcol, L) -- will fail
>in GCL Maxima f N is bigger than 64 (too many arguments in
>function call). Rats!
An alternative (there are others) for GCL users:
(%i1) load(nset)$
(%i2) m : lreduce('addcol, cons(matrix([x]), makelist([i],i,0,1000)))$
(%i3) m[1,500];
(%o3) 498
Barton