Hi everyone.

In 1-D input and in the Maple calculator x^y^z is treated as ambiguous requiring brackets while in 2-D input it is mysteriously (to me anyway) evaluated as x^(y^z).

What part of my elementary education am I missing here which instructs me to treat  x^y^z as (x^y)^z or so I had always thought?

Seriously I'd appreciate an expert explanation.

Hello everyone (new here, nice place).

I'm working through the Introductory Programming Guide in the 'Manuals' section of the online Help in Maple 13.0 and so far the soup has been at a satisfactory temperature but now I've run into a problem using the backslash as an Escape character as in the examples at 'Special Characters in Names' in '2.2 Tokens' subsection 'Names'.

Specifically I can't make the example

`a\'b`;