Re: Writing prime factor decomposision in conventional form
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- Subject: [mg65343] Re: [mg65320] Writing prime factor decomposision in conventional form
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:56:17 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Wolfgang, I'm sure something like this is somewhere in the Help. FactorForm[n_Integer] := Times @@ ((HoldForm[#1^#2] & ) @@ #1 & ) /@ FactorInteger[n] FactorForm[40] FactorForm[425623016] There is a certain advantage to explicitly displaying the '1' superscripts here because it keep all the prime factors in sort order. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: Dr. Wolfgang Hintze [mailto:weh at snafu.de] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net How can I get a conventional form output for the prime number decomposition, e.g. {{2,3},{5,1}} as 2^3 5 ? I have found some (rather cumbersome) method but it leaves the final expression in "" when I put it into input format in order to transfer it in simple text form to another application. I'm sure that there is a simple way to achieve the goal. Any idea is greatly appreciated. Regards, Wolfgang