On 3/5/07, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 3/5/07, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
When people write math on a piece of paper, a subscript is often just
> a means of distinguishing similar symbols, and indeed Maxima
> sometimes treats subscripts in just that way
Understood. Unfortunately, a[1] and a are related in funny ways....
> Consider f(x, x) := x^x.
> What is f(a, b) ? It turns out it is b^b. Maxima makes no complaint,
Well, let's fix that.
-s