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Re: Preventing Times[x,x] from becoming Power[x,2]

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• Subject: [mg53668] Re: [mg53661] Preventing Times[x,x] from becoming Power[x,2]
• From: yehuda ben-shimol <benshimo at bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
• Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:51:51 -0500 (EST)
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Josef Karthauser wrote:

>I was wondering whether anyone knows the answer to this one.
>
>I've got a function, let's call it F[...]. If I enter F[s] F[s]
>into mathematica it "simplifies" the resulting expression, making it
>become Power[F[s],2].  Is there any way to prevent this automatic
>simplification on F[] objects?
>
>Joe
>  
>
You can use upvalues and HoldForm[]

f[x_] f[x_]^=HoldForm[f[x] f[x]]

Now when you use it  as in
f[a+b+c] f[a+b+c]
it will not be simplified to f[a+b+c]^2 and will be displayed as you wanted
yehuda

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    • From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>