NumberMultiplier usage
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg121857] NumberMultiplier usage
- From: "tenons at gmail.com" <tenons at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 04:00:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Can anyone shed any light on why Times[3, 2^z] appears as 3 x 2^z but Times[-3,2^x] appears as -3 2^z ? For presentation purposes (for freshmen!), I would like the NumberMultiplier to show up in the second case as well. I realize I can do something like: Unprotect[Times]; Format[Times[x_?(NumericQ[#] && Negative[#] &), z_] := x\[Cross]z]: Protect[Times] but this seems clumsy, a little dangerous, doesn't affect input lines and produces the result with parentheses which I don't care for: (-3)x2^z Does anybody else care about such things? Michael Williams [ I have NumberMultiplier set to \[Cross] in all the various *Forms and the $FrontEnd and AutoMultiplicationSymbol -> True ]