About this issue

Abstract

Welcome to the third issue of Maple Transactions.  For a variety of global reasons, this issue's production was slow enough that by the time the original contributions were ready, a whole new batch of contributions were also ready.  So this is basically a "double issue".  We have two Featured Contributions: "How to Hunt Wild Constants" which surveys the software for guessing what a floating-point constant might really be; and another on "Arbitrary precision computation of the gamma function" which surveys the state-of-the-art for computation of that remarkable function.  We have our first video presentation hosted on Western's Institutional Repository instead of YouTube, for better international access. We have contributions on mathematical research and on educational research, and on educational practice. We have a nice educational paper on how to program in Maple.  And, since it's kind of a double issue, I have written two columns for the Editor's corner.  I hope you will enjoy them, but more than that I am certain that you will find a lot of interesting material in this issue.