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From: | Roland Winkler |
Subject: | Re: Non-commutative symbolic multiplication in Calc |
Date: | Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:09:36 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes: > Sorry if this is not the right list for this question. > > Is there a way to suspend some of the automatic simplifications that > calc performs? In particular I am interested in suspending the > assumption that multiplication is commutative. This would allow for > symbolic calculations with entities that are not necessarily numbers > or elements of some vector space. It's a pretty tricky issue to get useful results when doing analytical calculations with noncommuting variables. I doubt that you will get what you want when you just remove the assumption that multiplication is commutative. Roland
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