Re: polynomial coefficients in descending powers
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- Subject: [mg10790] Re: polynomial coefficients in descending powers
- From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 00:58:34 -0500
- Organization: University of Western Australia
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Eduardo Pires wrote: > In Mathematica I enter: > In[1]:= > s + 10 > ---------------------- > s^2 + 100 s + 50 > > and get : > > Out[1]= > 10 + s > --------------------- > 50 + 100 s + s^2 > > How Mathematica can by default output a fractional expression with the > polynomial coefficients in descending powers of s, like de input ?. One way is to set your Default Output FormatType to be TraditionalForm. Personally, I prefer TraditionalForm to StandardForm and use it for both Input and Output. Cheers, Paul ____________________________________________________________________ Paul Abbott Phone: +61-8-9380-2734 Department of Physics Fax: +61-8-9380-1014 The University of Western Australia Nedlands WA 6907 mailto:paul@physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://www.pd.uwa.edu.au/~paul God IS a weakly left-handed dice player ____________________________________________________________________