Re: Subscript on plus expression
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- Subject: [mg128701] Re: Subscript on plus expression
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:15:01 -0500 (EST)
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On Nov 18, 2012, at 3:57 AM, Dave Snead <dsnead6 at charter.net> wrote: > Mathematica fails to parenthesize the a+b in > Subscript[Plus[a,b],k] > > so the output looks identical to > Plus[a,Subscript[b,k]] > > Is this a bug? > Is there an option to force the parentheses? I don't know off hand of any such option, but is it so unreasonable to insert parentheses explicitly in the first? After all, that's surely what you'd do if writing it with pencil on paper! --- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2838 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Plotting a series of Roots
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- Subscript on plus expression
- From: "Dave Snead" <dsnead6@charter.net>
- Plotting a series of Roots