Timeline for How do I display an expression with negative powers?
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| Apr 11, 2013 at 10:40 | comment | added | Jacob Akkerboom |
@Xerxes here it is possibly also interesting to note that Hold[Divide[a,b]]//FullForm -> Hold[Divide[a,b]] (so that it is a bit confusing that "/" in the help points to Divide). But maybe you already realized this.
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| Mar 4, 2013 at 16:47 | comment | added | Xerxes |
@RolfMertig I think that conversion happens later. Consider FullForm[{1/2,Hold[1/2]}]: (* List[Rational[1, 2], Hold[Times[1, Power[2, -1]]]] *)
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| Mar 4, 2013 at 10:25 | comment | added | Rolf Mertig | @Xerxes if you type 1/2 it is converted to Rational[1,2] | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 5:08 | vote | accept | RandomBits | ||
| Mar 4, 2013 at 0:56 | comment | added | Xerxes |
I see what you mean, but this is a bigger problem with the way Mathematica treats input. When you type 1/2, Mathematica sees Times[1,Power[2,-1]]. There's nothing like a Divide produced, as you might think, so there's no way to discriminate between the two inputs you gave.
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| Mar 4, 2013 at 0:30 | comment | added | RandomBits |
I got it to work for the given example, but now it seems to convert everything that it can with a negative power. 1/2 comes out as 2^-1.
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| Mar 3, 2013 at 22:07 | comment | added | RandomBits | This looks appealing, but it will take me a little time to understand it and implement it. | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 21:50 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard | I see you already implemented what I alluded to in my answer. +1 | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 21:30 | history | answered | Xerxes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |