Maxima Operator
^^
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