Re: Design problem in 4.2?
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- Subject: [mg38702] Re: [mg38689] Design problem in 4.2?
- From: "Mihajlo Vanevic" <mvane at eunet.yu>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 03:42:36 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
I think this works for non-pathological cases:
$PrePrint = # /. Times[a_] :> DisplayForm[ToBoxes[Times[a]] /. " " -> "*"] &;
Regards,
Mihajlo Vanevic
2003-01-05
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* At 2003-01-05, 06:33:00
* Jonathan Mann, mtheory at msn.com wrote:
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>Hi group, it's been a while.
>
>Perhaps there has been some discussion of the following but I have
>missed it.
>
>When evaluating, for example, 40(8)^t Mathematica factors both the 40
>and the 8 to yield 5 8^(1+t). Notice the space between the 5 and the 8.
> Although it is clear in this example, given a sufficiently complicated
>input where what the output should be is not so clear one might mistake
>the above for 58^(1+t).
>
>Has the absence of a multiplication symbol in the output of Mathematica
>in these instances been a problem for anyone else? Is there anything
>you can do about it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jonathan Mann
>mtheory at msn.com
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