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>
> Cc:
> 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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