On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:32:52 you wrote:
> [...]
>
> What exactly are you trying to accomplish using second-order
> functions? Though they're certainly a powerful and appropriate
> technique for many applications, often in Maxima it is easier to use
> expressions than functions.
>
Maybe I should first say that I am a lisp programmer and new to maxima, so it
could well be that I am abusing maxima by trying to use it like lisp or
sometrhing. (By the way, is there a good reference on how to use lisp in
maxima? I can't seem to find one.)
What I am trying to do is the following. I want to run a number of
simulations. The number of variables and hence ode's per simulation depends
on a certain parameter n; and given n the set of ode's can easily be
generated. That is what I want to do as opposed to each time having to type
the set of ode's myself for different values of n.
J.