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Overriding Power

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• Subject: [mg26808] Overriding Power
• From: Jeff Hersh <frumple*NOSPAM* at home.com>
• Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 04:18:46 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello,

I am working on a package that deals with non-communative multiplication 
and I have run into a problem with the Power function. As we know 
Power[a b,n] (where n is an integer) automatically gets converted to 
Power[a,n] Power[b,n]. However, with non-communative multiplication (I 
have removed the Orderless attribute from Times to make it 
non-communative) this isn't valid. Is there any way I can stop 
Mathematica from automatically doing this conversion?

Jeff
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