What should %e^(y=x) mean?



On 8/6/11, Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> On 8/6/2011 12:05 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
>> ute over lists, matrices, and equations, while exp is not so declared.
>> You can get the desired effect like this in a Maxima session, or just
>> put the Lisp code in maxima-init.lisp. :lisp (setf (get '%exp
>> 'distribute_over) '(mlist mequal))

> Unfortunately this works only if you write  exp(a=b)   but not %e^(a=b).

Yup, and if I try the same thing with MEXPT, it doesn't work
(probably because MEXPT takes 2 arguments? not sure).

I guess it would probably take some Lisp hacking to get
the desired effect for exp, then.

best

Robert Dodier