order of operands



On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 16:25 +0400, Mikhail Khokhlov wrote:
> I've noticed that Maxima often changes the order of operands in sums
> that I enter. Is it 
> possible to suppress this behavior, so that when I enter "a + b", I
> get "a + b" and not "b + a"?
> And one more possibly related question: is there any way to disable
> automatic simplifications, 
> so that "a/a" would remain "a/a" until I explicitly ask it to simplify
> to "1"? 
type: describe(simp) to see the manual section for that.
Regards,
Jaime