Re: Order of polynomial terms
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- Subject: [mg120879] Re: Order of polynomial terms
- From: Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:13:29 -0400 (EDT)
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You may use PolynomialForm and set TraditionalOrder to True: SetOptions[PolynomialForm,TraditionalOrder->True] expr=x^2+3x+7 expr//PolynomialForm But beware, PolynomialForm works like MatrixForm, so expr=x^2+3x+7//PolynomialForm ----> x^2+3x+7 Then 13 expr //Expand will not expand, but 13 expr[[1]] //Expand//PolynomialForm ----> 13x^2+39x+91 or better always use like this, as you do with MatrixForm, Columm etc. (expr= x^2+3x+7)//PolynomialForm 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). > -- _________________________________________________________________ Peter Breitfeld, Bad Saulgau, Germany -- http://www.pBreitfeld.de