Nick Alexander wrote:
>> sage: y = expand(K.det()); y
>> a*d*e*h - a*d*f*g - b*c*e*h + b*c*f*g
>> sage: simplify(y)
>> -a*d*f*g + a*d*h*e + b*c*f*g - b*c*h*e
> 
> To me, these look like the same expressions, just one has variables
> sorted differently (h < e?) and different term orders.  What is the issue?

I think this is OK and shows how this sequence of commands is "supposed
to work".  The calculation above it uses the same commands with
different variable names, and gets much stranger results.

-Jason

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