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Hold and Equal

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  • Subject: [mg73715] Hold and Equal
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:12:41 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
  • Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

How can I produce in an Output cell (under program control) an 
expression like the following,

   (a+b)^2 = a^2+ 2 a b + b^2

where instead of the usual Equal (==) I get a Set (=), as in traditional 
math notation?  I want to input the unexpanded (a+b)^2 and have the 
expansion done automatically.

Of course, I can try something like the following:

   (a+b)^2 == Expand[(a+b)^2])

So how do I convert the == to =?  Of course

   ((a + b)^2 == Expand[(a + b)^2]) /. Equal -> Set

gives a Set::write error.  And

   (Hold[(a + b)^2 == Expand[(a + b)^2]]) /. Equal -> Set

doesn't actually evaluate the Expand part and leaves the "Hold" wrapper.




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