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Dec 11, 2013 at 9:58 answer added user201018 timeline score: 1
May 24, 2013 at 2:51 vote accept user587155
May 23, 2013 at 23:22 answer added DavidC timeline score: 14
May 23, 2013 at 23:18 answer added Thies Heidecke timeline score: 8
May 23, 2013 at 23:16 comment added Michael E2 I wonder if Mathematica might be able to simplify the terrible algebraic expression for you -- but that's a different question.
May 23, 2013 at 23:04 comment added user587155 thanks for the input. indeed, counting * in the InputForm string is most in line with what i originally hoped to accomplish, thanks!
May 23, 2013 at 22:40 answer added Oleksandr R. timeline score: 11
May 23, 2013 at 22:26 comment added rm -rf "but that seems like an unnecessarily cumbersome way." — unless I'm mistaken, that seems to be the only sensible option, since with the Flat attribute of Times, you'll never see Times[a, Times[b, c]]. There might be dark, back alley routes to spelunk and do some ugly pre-parsing, etc., but I don't think it'd be any less "cumbersome", not to mention the loss in intent and clarity. As an alternative, you could consider converting your expression to InputForm, then a string and counting the *s
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