Re: Non-commutative symbolic multiplication in Calc

[Roland Winkler]

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