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Treat expressions as numbers in Maple

I write some code of procedure that contains next 2 lines. Why line 2 isn't executed? How to force Maple treat all math expressions as numbers?

b := evalf(sqrt(5)); 
k := evalf(ceil(Log2(ceil(sqrt(b)))));

                        b := 2.236067977
                       k := ceil(Log2(2))

Issue

Solution

  • It turned out that Maple contains log2 function in MTM package. To use logarithm with base b you should call log[b](x) function.