Re: Re: Automatic expansion of Log[a^n] for a,n explicit positive integers?
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- Subject: [mg28241] Re: [mg28229] Re: [mg28180] Automatic expansion of Log[a^n] for a,n explicit positive integers?
- From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson at shell.faradic.net>
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 01:52:50 -0400 (EDT)
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Harald,
You could use this function:
lg[z_?IntegerQ] := Plus @@ Apply[#2 Log[#1] &, FactorInteger[z], 2]
I tried to incorporate this into the definition of Log by:
Unprotect[Log];
Log[z_?IntegerQ] := Plus @@ Apply[#2Log[#1] &, FactorInteger[z], 2];
Protect[Log];
But I get a recursion error. I hope someone else might be able to suggest
a way to avoid this. Putting Hold around the Log in the pure function
leaves the Hold in the output. I hoped I could first define
Log[z_?PrimeQ] := Log[z]
to catch the Prime case, but this also leads to recursion.
Chris
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Tomas Garza wrote:
> If you are only concerned about powers of 2, then you may define the
> functiion lg and use it always instead of Log:
>
> In[1]:=
> lg[n_] := If[Mod[n, 2] == 0, IntegerExponent[n, 2]*Log[2], Log[n]]
>
> Then, e.g.,
>
> In[1]:=
> {lg[2], lg[4], lg[8], lg[16], lg[32], lg[3]}
> Out[1]=
> {Log[2], 2 Log[2], 3 Log[2], 4 Log[2], 5 Log[2], Log[3]}
>
> Tomas Garza
> Mexico City
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harald Anlauf" <anlauf at hep.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg28241] [mg28229] [mg28180] Automatic expansion of Log[a^n] for a,n explicit positive
> integers?
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there a way to force Mathematica 4.0 to always expand expressions like
> >
> > Log[4], Log[8], Log[16], etc. to 2*Log[2] etc.
> >
> > automatically?
> >
> > It is very annoying to have such logarithms expanded manually each
> > time they pop up again...
> >
> > PowerExpand[] apparently does not help/work.
> >
> > --
> > Ciao,
> > -ha
> >
>
>