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Re: HoldForm Obscurities

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  • Subject: [mg34026] Re: HoldForm Obscurities
  • From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 00:56:29 -0400 (EDT)
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To emphasize further Jens-Peer's observation that outputs like

    a = HoldForm[  1 2 1 0  1.0 2 1]

        2 0 1. 2

is to do with formatting:

    FullForm[HoldForm[  1 2 1 0  1. 2 1]]

        HoldForm[Times[1,2,1,0,1.`,2,1]]

Note that

    List@@@a

        {1,2,1,0,1.,2,1}

Compare

    1.0 x

        1. x

with

    1 x

        x

But it is interesting that presence of 0 does not result in the output being
formatted as 0, inspite of

    0 x

        0

--
Allan

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