Re: Writing prime factor decomposision in conventional form
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- Subject: [mg65330] Re: [mg65320] Writing prime factor decomposision in conventional form
- From: jackgoldberg at comcast.net
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:55:56 -0500 (EST)
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Hello,
David B. Wagner addressed this issue a long time ago. He used to be an active participant here but he is no longer. In his book Power Programming with Mathematica, The Kernel, on page 277 is the answer to your question.
I vaguely remember (could be wrong here) that he also wrote a package with a lot more functionality and published it. Others may know more about it.
Jack
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From: "Dr. Wolfgang Hintze" <weh at snafu.de>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
> How can I get a conventional form output for the prime number
> decomposition, e.g. {{2,3},{5,1}} as 2^3 5 ?
>
> I have found some (rather cumbersome) method but it leaves the final
> expression in "" when I put it into input format in order to transfer it
> in simple text form to another application.
>
> I'm sure that there is a simple way to achieve the goal.
>
> Any idea is greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Wolfgang
>