From: Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>
Cc: belanger@truman.edu
Subject: Re: Non-Commutative calculations in Calc, Revisited
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:16:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xx66b1c.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9745.1128461080.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
> When in non-commutative (aka `matrix') mode calc calculates
> (a b)^-1 to be a^-1 b^-1 instead of the correct b^-1 a^-1.
>
> Actually there is a more general bug. It calculates (a b)^n
> to be a^n b^n. I think this rule should be removed when a and
> be don't commute. Furthermore a special rule should be included
> that deals with the case n=-1.
Yes; you're right.
Fixes should be commited to cvs tomorrow afternoon at the latest.
Thanks,
Jay
next parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-06 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-10-06 13:16 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2005-10-06 13:42 ` Non-Commutative calculations in Calc, Revisited David Kastrup
2005-10-06 16:17 ` Jay Belanger
2005-10-06 18:23 ` Neon Absentius
2005-10-06 18:01 ` Neon Absentius
2005-10-07 0:47 ` Neon Absentius
[not found] ` <mailman.10168.1128646105.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <wi7jcqt9ep.fsf@dms.auburn.edu>
2005-10-07 2:15 ` Neon Absentius
[not found] ` <mailman.10178.1128651397.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-07 7:26 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <mailman.10119.1128621714.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-07 3:59 ` Jay Belanger
2005-10-07 21:31 ` Jay Belanger
2005-10-04 21:23 Neon Absentius
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