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Hello everyone,

i am a newcomer. i used maxima before to check my own 
solutions to differential equations or to check if my 
"organization" of equations e.g. substitution etc are okey 
or not.

But now, i need some help.

I need to know if there is a way to count the number of 
terms in an expression.

EG: the expression a*b has two terms, namely a and b

the function nterms() does not work. nterms(a*b) is one.

thanks for your help and sorry for my bad english.

I have maxima 5.28.0

thanks,s