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Re: How to separate a sum into terms

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  • Subject: [mg92045] Re: [mg92018] How to separate a sum into terms
  • From: "Tong Shiu-sing" <sstong at phy.cuhk.edu.hk>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:14:34 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <200809170829.EAA14092@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

Another simplier way is to replace the Head of your sum with a List:

List @@ (a + b - c + f[1] - g[a]/g[b])

It gives the same result.

Regards,
Shiu-sing
Hong Kong

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From: "Slava Rychkov" <slava.rychkov at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:29 PM
Subject: [mg92045] [mg92018] How to separate a sum into terms


> Hi!
> 
> I want to separate a Mathematica expression written as a sum into 
> separate terms
> E.g. for
> 
> a+b-c+f[1]-g[a]/g[b]
> 
> I want to get a list
> 
> {a,b,-c,f[1],-g[a]/g[b]}
> 
> Is there a simple way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
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