Re: Mathematica: how to make it display Binomial[n,p] using parenthesis() notation?

Jean-Marc Gulliet wrote:
Dave wrote:
David W. Cantrell wrote:
"Nasser Abbasi" <nma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello, This is Mathematica 6.0.1

I am working with many of the probability distributions (pdf) in
Mathematica, and a number of them are defined in terms of Bionmial[]

I was wondering if there is a way to make Mathematica display Binomial[]
using the parenthesis notation () instead of the word itself "Binomial'?

For example, when typing

PDF[BinomialDistribution[n, p], k]

it returns

(1 - p)^(-k + n)*p^k*Binomial[n, k]

I want it to display the last term about as / n \
| |
\ k /

Since it would be easier to read that way (and it looks like the textbook
more also)

Binomial[n, k] // TraditionalForm

does what you want in version 5.2 and, I would guess, also in version 6.

David

Not quite in 6....

<snip>

I might have missed something, but evaluating the expression Binomial[n, k] // TraditionalForm on my system produces the same desired result both with Mathematica 5.2 and 6.0.1 (on Windows). So what do you mean by "Not quite in 6..."

Regards,

Hi,
I was using a text-based interface to Mathemaitca at the time I posted that - not GUI/notebook.

The original poster (Nasser) wanted it to display like this below (hoping proportioanl fonts dont screw this up:

/ n \
| |
\ k /


The output on my machine at least, with the text-based interface, looked quite different to that, with the text 'TraditionalForm' shown and the brackets not quite in the right places.


Out[1]//TraditionalForm= (n)

k


However, I can see when one does that in a notebook, it does indeed look right. It just looks a bit without the notebook.






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