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Re: How to prevent from simplification?

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• Subject: [mg52461] Re: [mg52441] How to prevent from simplification?
• From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
• Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 01:06:42 -0500 (EST)
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On 27 Nov 2004, at 07:40, Christian Auner wrote:

> How can I substitute values into an expression and prevent it from
> beeing evaluated and simplified?
>
> Assume I have an expression like
>
> a + b/c
>
> and I want to substitute values for a,b and such that the result looks
> like
>
> number + number
>
> That is the evalution stops right before the addition.
>
> I already tried HoldForm but it didn't work.
>
>
>
It is enough to apply HoldForm just to the first summand:

In[2]:=
HoldForm[a] + b/c /. {a -> 1, b -> 6, c -> 3}

Out[2]=
1+2

Andrzej Kozlowski
Chiba, Japan
http://www.akikoz.net/~andrzej/
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/

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    • From: Christian Auner <mca@nurfuerspam.de>