Maxima assumes order of differentiation assumed to be irrelevant
Subject: Maxima assumes order of differentiation assumed to be irrelevant
From: Bernard Hurley
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:28:24 +0100
On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 09:06 -0500, Barton Willis wrote:
> -----maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote: -----
>
> >Maxima assumes that the order of differentiation is irrelevant as the
> > following shows:
>
> >Is there any way to override this?
>
> Not that I know of. Macsyma has an option package "opalg" with an option variable diff_cannonicalize
> that controls the simplification of derivatives. Maxima doesn't include opalg.
Too bad, maybe this is something I can look into when I have got to know
maxima a bit better.
Bernard
>
> Barton