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Re: how do I display "Power[z,-1]" in an exponetial form?

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  • Subject: [mg50686] Re: how do I display "Power[z,-1]" in an exponetial form?
  • From: p-valko at tamu.edu (Peter Valko)
  • Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:15:50 -0400 (EDT)
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dumstuck at gmx.ch (dumstuck at gmx.ch) wrote in message news:<ci8mqm$bt3$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> In the field of DSP engineering we like keeping the expression "1/z"
> in the form of "z minus one", namly in a exponential form. Both the "z
> minus one" and "1/z" has the same "FullForm", namely "Power[z,-1]".
> But they both get displayed in a fractional form. how could I change
> that way of diplaying "Power[z,-1]"?



One simple way might be:

exp = 3 a^2  z^(-1);

StringReplace[ToString[exp /. Power[z_, -1] -> Power[z, mone]], "mone"
-> "-1"] // OutputForm

(but then the response will be a string and you cannot process it
further.)

Peter


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