Re: Design problem in 4.2?
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- Subject: [mg38722] Re: Design problem in 4.2?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 07:26:14 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, if InputForm[] doe not help you, you can Unprotect[Times] Format[Times[a_, b_], StandardForm] := SequenceForm[a, "*", b] Protect[Times] to get the * symbol back. Regards Jens Jonathan Mann wrote: > > Hi group, it's been a while. > > Perhaps there has been some discussion of the following but I have > missed it. > > When evaluating, for example, 40(8)^t Mathematica factors both the 40 > and the 8 to yield 5 8^(1+t). Notice the space between the 5 and the 8. > Although it is clear in this example, given a sufficiently complicated > input where what the output should be is not so clear one might mistake > the above for 58^(1+t). > > Has the absence of a multiplication symbol in the output of Mathematica > in these instances been a problem for anyone else? Is there anything > you can do about it? > > Thanks, > > Jonathan Mann > mtheory at msn.com