### 3.1 Documentation

The Maxima on-line user’s manual can be viewed in different forms. From the Maxima interactive prompt, the user’s manual is viewed as plain text by the `?` command (i.e., the `describe` function). The user’s manual is viewed as `info` hypertext by the `info` viewer program and as a web page by any ordinary web browser.

`example` displays examples for many Maxima functions. For example,

    (%i1) example (integrate);

yields

    (%i2) test(f):=block([u],u:integrate(f,x),ratsimp(f-diff(u,x)))
    (%o2) test(f) := block([u], u : integrate(f, x),
                                             ratsimp(f - diff(u, x)))
    (%i3) test(sin(x))
    (%o3)                           0
    (%i4) test(1/(x+1))
    (%o4)                           0
    (%i5) test(1/(x^2+1))
    (%o5)                           0

and additional output.

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