Change the Form of Input and Output - Wolfram Mathematica 8 Documentation

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How to | Change the Form of Input and Output

The user interface for Mathematica provides many options for formatting input and output.

The sum of

from

Out[67]=

While correct, this does not look like traditional mathematics. Select the cell group, then choose the menu item Cell ► Convert To ► TraditionalForm:

Out[959]=

Alternatively, if you only want to format the answer, apply TraditionalForm:

Out[68]//TraditionalForm=

InputForm and StandardForm work in reverse.

Use InputForm to find out how to type an expression into Mathematica:

Out[70]//InputForm=

StandardForm is more compact than InputForm and is unambiguous to Mathematica:

Out[71]//StandardForm=

TraditionalForm is sometimes ambiguous; in this case, Mathematica treats

first as a number and then as a function:

Out[72]//StandardForm=