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Re: HoldForm

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  • Subject: [mg68117] Re: HoldForm
  • From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:52:25 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Jean-Marc Gulliet wrote:
> Bruce Colletti wrote:
>> Re Mathematica 5.2.0.0.
>>
>> This code displays the component differences of matrix subtraction (A-B):
>>
>> A = {{1, 2}, {3, 4}};
>>
>> B = {{5, 6}, {7, -8}};
>>
>> Map[MapThread[HoldForm[#1 - #2] &, {A[[#]], B[[#]]}] &, Range@2]
>>
>> As desired, the output is {{1 - 5, 2 - 6}, {3 - 7, 4--8}}.
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> - What's a better way to do this?
>>
>> - How can I replace the -- by +? 
>>
>> Thankx.
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>
> A simpler approach that my preceding post is
> 
> MapThread[TraditionalForm[HoldForm[#1] - #2] &, Flatten /@ {A, B}]
> 
> that returns {1 - 5, 2 - 6, 3 - 7, 4 + 8}.

Again, the above result is not a matrix. Sorry about these mistakes.
To match exactly what you wanted, a component by component difference of 
two matrices, the expression should read

MapThread[HoldForm[#1] - #2 & , {A, B}, 2]

returns

{{1 - 5, 2 - 6}, {3 - 7, 4 + 8}}

as desired.

Best regards,
Jean-Marc


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