From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Non-commutative symbolic multiplication in Calc Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:03:30 -0500 Message-ID: <87hdcydkvh.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> References: Reply-To: belanger@truman.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126037176 21925 80.91.229.2 (6 Sep 2005 20:06:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:06:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 06 22:06:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECjhL-00054e-RF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:05:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECjlq-0002vX-Vf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:10:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.newsfirst.net!newshub.more.net!news.more.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:m78QhLj81ZXUlO2ROinNjecb0k8= Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.243.64.31 Original-X-Trace: news.more.net 1126037009 150.243.64.31 (Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:03:29 CDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:03:29 CDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133724 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:29267 Archived-At: Neon Absentius 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. Does matrix mode ("m v") do what you want? Jay