FactorInteger Print Formatting
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg650] FactorInteger Print Formatting
- From: Alan Powell <POWELLA at delphi.com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 01:56:56 -0500 (EST)
Could anyone suggest a neat way to reformat the output of
FactorInteger into a more usable print format?
FactorInteger[n] gives a list of prime factors of the integer n
in ascending order, together with their exponents viz:
FactorInteger[900] produces the list {{2,2},{3,2},{5,2}}
What I need is a function called say factorform[list] such that:
Print[ factorform[{{2,2},{3,2},{5,2}}] ] produces 2^2*3^2*5^2
Ideally exponents equal to 1 would be suppressed so that when
ff = FactorInteger[30] produces {{2,1},{3,1},{5,1}} then
Print[factorform[ff]] would give 2*3*5 instead of 2^1*3^1*5^1 and
Print[factorform[FactorInteger[2^6*3*5^2*7]]] would give 2^6*3*5^2*7
A procedural solution is possible, but I was unable to create a simple
function which would give the desired result.
Alan Powell POWELLA at delphi.com