Re: Abs[ ] traditional form
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- Subject: [mg60191] Re: Abs[ ] traditional form
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 04:03:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.
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Eduardo Nogueira wrote: > Hello > > I can't find how to type Abs[ ] traditional form. > Thanks for your attention > > Eduardo > Hi Edouardo, You can get the vertical bars standing for the absolute value of an expression either by wrapping the whole expression with *TraditionalForm* or by using the short-cut keyboard sequences of characters describe in http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/book/LeftBracketingBar http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/book/RightBracketingBar In[1]:= 2\[Pi]+Abs[-x]//TraditionalForm Out[1]//TraditionalForm= \[LeftBracketingBar]x\[RightBracketingBar]+2 \[Pi] In[2]:= % /. x -> -2*Pi Out[2]= 4*Pi Best regards, /J.M.