[Q] Factoring arrays
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg14929] [Q] Factoring arrays
- From: "Kevin Jaffe" <kj0 at mailcity.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 03:49:27 -0500
- Organization: MailCity (http://www.mailcity.lycos.com:80)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I'm dealing with some large arrays of symbolic expressions; it often
happens that all the
elements of the array have an
obvious common factor. These
arrays would become much more
readable if the common factor were
pulled out in front as a prefactor
for the array, but I can't figure
out how to get Mathematica to do
this. As a (tiny) example:
{{v[2]^2 v[3], -v[1] v[2] v[3]}, {-v[1] v[2] v[3], v[1]^2 v[3]}}
Is there a way to get Mathematica
to pull out the common v[3] factor
from the array above?
Thanks,
KJ
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