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		sampo on May 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The lingua franca of LaTeX Systems engineers (for example the K&R "C Programming Language" book) didn't need elaborate math notation, like Knuth needed.

ggm on May 26, 2019 [–]

Eqn was invented precisely to do elaborate math notation. Integrals, sweeping braces, majuscule and minescule letters, suffixes, Greek..

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