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Re: Order of polynomial terms

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  • Subject: [mg120895] Re: Order of polynomial terms
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:16:33 -0400 (EDT)
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On 13 Aug 2011, at 12:47, paulvonhippel at yahoo wrote:

> By default Mathematica displays polynomials with the lowest degree
> first -- e.g.,
>  -1 + n
> For purposes of display, I'd like to reorder the polynomial
> conventionally, with the highest degree first -- e.g.,
> n - 1
> Anyone know a convenient way to do this? I was using TraditionalForm
> with great satisfaction but that option's out now because
> TraditionalForm is incompatible with something else I'm using
> (Symbolize).
> 

You can try 

PolynomialForm[x^2 + x + 1, TraditionalOrder -> True]

Andrzej Kozlowski




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