RE: FactorInteger
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- Subject: [mg14459] RE: [mg14412] FactorInteger
- From: "Ersek, Ted R" <ErsekTR at navair.navy.mil>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 03:32:57 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On pages 283-293 of the book "Power Programming with Mathematica The Kernel" the author (David B. Wagner) develops a program to do exactly that. I highly recommend this book. For more information see http://store.wolfram.com/view/ISBN007912237X/?362C758E-6E1A Cheers, Ted Ersek > >Concerning the Prime Factors of composite integers ; > >e.g; > >In[1] := 2^4 3^3 4^2 > >Out[2] = 6912 > >In[3] := FactorInteger[%] > >Out[4] = {{2,4},{3,3},{4,2}} > >In Mathematica 3.0 is there anyway >the output of FactorInteger can be >modified to produce the unevaluated >prime factors in the usual >exponential form ? > >regards, > >Alan Hopper >Katoomba, Australia >awhopper at hermes.net.au >