Oh, right. Thanks!  I read the help pages on multiplication and the dot operator before posting here, but I was thrown by the fact Maple displays * as a dot when displaying maths entries.  Your explanation makes a lot of sense.  Cheers.

Oh, right. Thanks!  I read the help pages on multiplication and the dot operator before posting here, but I was thrown by the fact Maple displays * as a dot when displaying maths entries.  Your explanation makes a lot of sense.  Cheers.