MATHEMATICA HOW TO
How to | Change the Form of Input and Output
The user interface for Mathematica provides many options for formatting input and output.
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While correct, this does not look like traditional mathematics. Select the cell group, then choose the menu item Cell ► Convert To ► TraditionalForm:
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Alternatively, if you only want to format the answer, apply TraditionalForm:
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InputForm and StandardForm work in reverse.
Use InputForm to find out how to type an expression into Mathematica:
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StandardForm is more compact than InputForm and is unambiguous to Mathematica:
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TraditionalForm is sometimes ambiguous; in this case, Mathematica treats
first as a number and then as a function:
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