Re: Implicit Times
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- Subject: [mg128637] Re: Implicit Times
- From: "Dave Snead" <dsnead6 at charter.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:54:31 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks, but the issue is not defining the operator. The issue is Mathematica's implicit assumption of a Times (*) when there's a space between variables. The NonCommutativeMultiply (**) already exists. So when I input x y//FullForm I want Mathematica to return NonCommutativeMultiply[x,y] instead of Times[x,y] Of course I want the explicit Times (*) to still work the same as before, x*y//FullForm yielding Times[x,y] --Dave Snead -----Original Message----- From: James Stein Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 11:06 PM To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg128637] Re: Implicit Times Read this Mathematica reference on "operators without built-in meanings". I assume you could define, e.g., 'CircleTimes' to return whatever function (including non-commutative multiply) you wish. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Dave Snead <dsnead6 at charter.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > Mathematica assumes Times (*) when two expressions are > juxtaposed with no explicit intervening binary operator > (ex., x y is interpreted as x*y). > I want to change this behavior so it assumes a > NonCommutativeMultiply (**) instead. > Is this possible? > > Thanks in advance, > Dave Snead > > >
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- From: "Dave Snead" <dsnead6@charter.net>
- Re: Implicit Times
- From: James Stein <mathgroup@stein.org>
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