Re: Hold and Equal
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg73736] Re: Hold and Equal
- From: Roland Franzius <roland.franzius at uos.de>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:42:55 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Hannover
- References: <erufqm$s7j$1@smc.vnet.net>
Murray Eisenberg schrieb: > 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. What about a Format for a special equation container: Format[Equate[a_,b_]]:= Infix[Equate[a,b],"="] -- Roland Franzius