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Legacy Documentation

The Mathematical Explorer^TM (2001)

This is documentation for an obsolete product.

InputForm InputForm[ expr ] prints as a version of expr suitable for input to Mathematica. Example: InputForm[x^2 + 1/a] . InputForm always produces one-dimensional output, suitable to be typed as lines of Mathematica input. InputForm acts as a "wrapper", which affects printing, but not evaluation. Put (>>) produces InputForm by default. Short[InputForm[ expr ]] can be used, but may generate skeleton objects which cannot be given as Mathematica input. The option NumberMarks can be used to specify whether ` marks should be used to indicate type, precision or accuracy of approximate numbers. See The Mathematica Book: Section 1.9.4, Section 1.10.9 and Section 2.8.1. See also: OutputForm, StandardForm. Further Examples