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2.1 Introduction to Help

The most useful online help command is DESCRIBE which obtains help on all commands containing a particular string. Here by command we mean a built in operator such as INTEGRATE or FACTOR etc. As a typing short cut you may type ? fact in lieu of describe("fact")
 
(C3) ? inte;


 0: (maxima.info)Integration.
 1: Introduction to Integration.
 2: Definitions for Integration.
 3: INTERRUPTS.
 4: ASKINTEGER :Definitions for Simplification.
 5: DISPLAY_FORMAT_INTERNAL :Definitions for Input and Output.
 6: INTEGERP :Definitions for Miscellaneous Options.
 7: INTEGRATE :Definitions for Integration.
 8: INTEGRATION_CONSTANT_COUNTER :Definitions for Integration.
 9: INTERPOLATE :Definitions for Numerical.
Enter n, all, none, or multiple choices eg 1 3 : 7 8;

Info from file /d/linux2/local/share/info/maxima.info:
 - Function: INTEGRATE (EXP, VAR)
     integrates exp with respect to var or returns an integral
     expression (the noun form) if it cannot perform the integration
     (see note 1 below).  Roughly speaking three stages are used:
...
In the above the user said he wanted items 7 and 8. Note the ; following the two numbers. He might have typed all to see help on all the items.


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