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Re: HoldForm Obscurities

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  • Subject: [mg33975] Re: HoldForm Obscurities
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 02:59:47 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

what you see is not what you have, try

FullForm[ HoldForm[Times[1, 1, 2, 2]] ]


The "formating" that still takes place with
HoldForm[] remove some times leading 1's 

Regards
  Jens

Dustin Vink wrote:
> 
> Dear Reader,
> 
> Can someone explain the following obscurity?
> 
> In: HoldForm[Times[1, 1, 2, 2]]
> 
> Out: 2 2
> 
> In: HoldForm[Times[1, 1, 2, 1]]
> 
> Out: 1 1 2 1
> 
> In: HoldForm[Times[1, 1, 2]]
> 
> Out: 1 1 2
> 
> In: HoldForm[Times[2, 1, 2]]
> 
> Out: 2 2
> 
> Dustin ~:(


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