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RE: Converting an expression to a list of terms?

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  • Subject: [mg71490] RE: [mg71463] Converting an expression to a list of terms?
  • From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:11:54 -0500 (EST)

a + b - c + d - e
List @@ %
a + b - c + d - e
{a, b, -c, d, -e}

David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ 


From: AES [mailto:siegman at stanford.edu]


How to convert an expression consisting of a sum of terms in an Output 
cell:

   A + B - C + . . . 

(where A, B, C are themselves product expressions) to a list

   {A, B, -C, . . . }

in some easier fashion than doing it by hand using Find and Replace?



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