How do you order terms this way (My E-mail in Plain Text)

Rat does not work.  I would like to comment on the "right" way to display a polynomial in more than one variable.  There is no right way, there is however a personal preference that some people have.  I don't always want my results in term degree order, but there should be a way to do it.  I like to customize my applications to my personal preferences.  But I do not expect others to conform to my preferences so this option should be configurable through a package perhaps somewhat like the format package.

Richard Hennessy



------------Original Message------------
From: "Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
To: "'Richard Hennessy'" <rvh2007 at comcast.net>
Cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu
Date: Sun, Apr-20-2008 9:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Maxima] How do you order terms this way
try rat(%,y,x);

if that doesn't work for you, then I suspect the simplest alternative
is that you try to accomodate your own notions of what the right order is to what maxima provides.

Good luck.





From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Hennessy
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 6:08 PM
To: Maxima List
Subject: How do you order terms this way


If I have the quadratic surface in x and y

a*x^2 +b*y^2+d*x*y+e*x+f*y +g = 0

I want Maxima to print out this formula in the order above but when I enter it it changes it to 

b*y^2+d*x*y+f*y+a*x^2+e*x+g=0

I want the terms in order of degree so that x^n*y^m would come before x^(n-1)*y^m and also before x^n*y^(m-1) etc... 

Is there a way?  I can't find a function for that in the help.  

Richard Hennessy
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