On 7/3/2011 7:57 AM, Richard Fateman wrote:
.. snip
>
> Try setting powerdisp:true
>
> to reverse the ordering of display of expressions in a sum, generally.
>
> Conventionally, expressions are ordered this way :
>
> x^2+x
> z+3
> a*x+b
>
> with items later in the alphabet or more complicated coming first.
(I forgot to add)... and in a product, with the more complicated items
coming Last.
hence a*x^2.
>
> but this is not uniformly observed, so that we also see
>
> u+v
> E=mc^2
> F=ma
>
> a00*b00+a01*b10
>
> This has nothing to do with ratvars.
>
>
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