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From: Roland Winkler <winkler@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Re: Non-commutative symbolic multiplication in Calc
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:09:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3br36mgnz.fsf@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6004.1125975207.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

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

       reply	other threads:[~2005-09-06 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.6004.1125975207.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-06 14:09 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2005-09-06 17:07   ` Non-commutative symbolic multiplication in Calc Neon Absentius
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6076.1126026835.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-06 18:36     ` Roland Winkler
2005-09-06 19:12       ` Neon Absentius
2005-09-06 20:03 ` Jay Belanger
2005-09-06 21:33   ` Bug in Calc? (was Re: Non-commutative symbolic multiplication in Calc) Neon Absentius
2005-09-07 11:42     ` Bug in Calc? Neon Absentius
     [not found]     ` <mailman.6172.1126094602.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-07 13:56       ` Jay Belanger
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6115.1126042963.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-07 19:36     ` Bug in Calc? (was Re: Non-commutative symbolic multiplication in Calc) Jay Belanger
2005-09-06  2:33 Non-commutative symbolic multiplication in Calc Neon Absentius

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