Re: Show Factor
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- Subject: [mg46416] Re: Show Factor
- From: "Steven Shippee" <slshippee at comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:05:48 -0500 (EST)
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I do believe what you reference below, "showfactor" and even showsolve come from the electronic version of the book by Jerry Glynn and Theodore Gray entitled The Beginner's Guide to Mathematica. These two gentlemen wrote some code in chapter 69 that would accomplish what you want. The book came in print and electronic form. The electronic Form had the source code. Hope this helps. Steven Shippee shippee at jcs dot mil "Andrea" <andrea at radargift.com> wrote in message news:c0mp4i$68h$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Is there any way to have Mathematica show the steps for the Factor function? > > According to what I read, there is supposed to be a ShowExpand function. > (However, it doesn't work on my version 5.0 -- perhaps it's in a package?) > So I assume there must be a way to show the steps for the Factor > function. Can anyone help me here? > > Andrea >