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Re: 8 bit and FactorInteger ...

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  • Subject: [mg14527] Re: 8 bit and FactorInteger ...
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:33:25 -0500
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Jens-Peer Kuska wrote:

> FactorIntegerForm[faci_]:=
>    DisplayForm[Infix[SuperscriptBox[Sequence @@ #] & /@
> faci,"\[Times]"]]

Nice. So things like

	FactorInteger[10!]//FactorIntegerForm

work. Two questions:

[1] What is the easiest/best way to get the result back as a number
(i.e. remove the DisplayForm wrappers, etc)?

[2] Is there an easy way to associate FactorForm with FactorInteger
automatically?

Note however that

[1] if the exponent is 1 it is still printed.

[2] your code does not handle GaussianIntegers, e.g.,

	FactorInteger[25,GaussianIntegers->True]//FactorIntegerForm

Here is a different approach by Paul Wellin with some additions by Stan
Wagon which handles unit exponents and Complex factors.  I expect that
you could extend your code (which makes nice use of Infix) to handle
the Complex case as well.

FactorForm[{}] = 1;

FactorForm[l_] :=  (
temp = RowBox[{#, "\[CenterDot]"}] &  /@
 (MapThread[
  If[#2 == 1,
  If[Head[#1]===Complex,
    StringJoin["(", ToString[#1], ")"],
    ToString at #1], SuperscriptBox[ToString at #1, #2]]&,
   Transpose[l]]);
    SequenceForm@@DisplayForm/@
   ReplacePart[temp, Drop[temp[[-1,1]],-1],{{-1,1}}])

FactorForm[FactorInteger[12333000, GaussianIntegers->True]]

Note that this is still not perfect: if you use TraditionalForm for
output (as I do) the String conversion changes \[ImaginaryI] into I.

 Cheers,
	Paul

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