dot & cross binding powers + softbox workaround?



maybe the bug is due to the rule:

  tellsimpafter(etrue~ttrue.vtrue, etrue.(ttrue~vtrue))$

commenting it out, the bug is gone. But I haven't thought much more than this.

--bw
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu<mailto:willisb at unk.edu>> wrote:

(%i1) (load(vect), load("soft_box.mac"))$

  (%i2) R : matrix([-1,0,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1])$
  (%i3) e  : ([1,2,3] ~ [4,5,6]) . R;

  (%o3) [1,2,3] . [4,5,6]~matrix([-1,0,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1])

Opps--this is bogus--Maxima ignores the parens?

  (%i4) args(e);
  (%o4) [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]~matrix([-1,0,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1])]