On 4/20/2012 1:35 PM, nijso beishuizen wrote: > Dear all, > > I want to check if expr is of the form y^n. Is there a way to tell > maxima that all sqrt() terms should be converted to/written as ()^1/2? > > Internally, it already is. inpart(sqrt(x),0) is ^ inpart(1/sqrt(x),0) is ^ etc. Is that enough for your purposes? RJF