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POW POW

Maxima Operator

Calling Sequence

^^

Description

Noncommutative exponentiation operator. ^^ is the exponentiation operator corresponding to noncommutative multiplication ., just as the ordinary exponentiation operator ^ corresponds to commutative multiplication *.

Noncommutative exponentiation is displayed by ^^ in 1-dimensional output, and by placing the exponent as a superscript within angle brackets < > in 2-dimensional output.

Examples:

(%i1) a . a . b . b . b + a * a * a * b * b;
                        3  2    <2>    <3>
(%o1)                  a  b  + a    . b
(%i2) string (a . a . b . b . b + a * a * a * b * b);
(%o2)                  a^3*b^2+a^^2 . b^^3
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