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Comment by encrypted_bird

17 hours ago

Genuine question: why did you out $ signs next to the formula? I normally only see those put next to variable names.

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tooltower  17 hours ago

LaTeX uses those to render math formulas. E.g. https://www.openmath.net/latex_reference.html

Some people are so used to it, that they can read in latex

  • encrypted_bird  17 hours ago

    Ah, okay, thanks for explaining! Yeah, I don't know LaTeX. Haha.

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