matrices, subscripts, and ratvars



Perfect. Thanks!


----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu>
> To: Max Jones <max_corvallis at yahoo.com>; Maxima - list <Maxima at math.utexas.edu>
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> Sent: Sunday, July 3, 2011 8:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] matrices, subscripts, and ratvars
> 
> 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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