I don't think you can, at least, not easily. You can do pretty much anything with sufficient effort of course.
syms X
expr = expand((X+2)^12)
expr =
X^12 + 24*X^11 + 264*X^10 + 1760*X^9 + 7920*X^8 + 25344*X^7 + 59136*X^6 + 101376*X^5 + 126720*X^4 + 112640*X^3 + 67584*X^2 + 24576*X + 4096
So given the expression expr (which may be quite complicated, not something as simple as this one) now you want to write the coefficients as powers of 2, for example? Or do you want to factor all coefficients?
For example, the constant coefficient (4096) is clearly 2^12. But the coefficient of x^11 is 24=3*2^3. Do you want to write 24 as
c_11 = log2(24)
c_11 =
4.58496250072116
So if we raise 2 to the power of c_11, we get 24.
2^c_11
ans =
24
So you could easily enough extract the coefficients in that simple expression as
C = coeffs(expr)
C =
[ 4096, 24576, 67584, 112640, 126720, 101376, 59136, 25344, 7920, 1760, 264, 24, 1]
You could compute the factors of those numbers.
C(5)
ans =
126720
factor(C(5))
ans =
[ 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 11]
And then you could recover the number 126720=2^8*3^2*5*11.
Be careful, as the order of the numbers produced in that list of coefficients is not the same as the order the expression is displayed. Or you could then do this:
log2(C)
ans =
[ 12, log(24576)/log(2), log(67584)/log(2), log(112640)/log(2), log(126720)/log(2), log(101376)/log(2), log(59136)/log(2), log(25344)/log(2), log(7920)/log(2), log(1760)/log(2), log(264)/log(2), log(24)/log(2), 0]
So that is a list of the exponents of 2 for each coefficient.
However, I honestly think this is not what you are asking either. I think your question is to somehow automatically tell MATLAB to display that expression with the coefficients carefully factored and in an exponential form. You can't do that, at least not in any simple way that I know of.
