MathJax, at last a decent way to post maths on the web
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 10:53AM
For a long time, posting something as simple as a square root on the web has been a major pain. Despite MathML having been around for years, Firefox is still the only browser (that I know of) to render MathML correctly.
$$p=\Phi\left(\sqrt{2\ln\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\frac{M}{H}\right)}\right)$$
Recently, I did stumble upon MathJax, an outstanding JavaScript rendering engine for mathematics that works for all major recent browsers. The syntax is derived from the one of LaTeX, and the output is either MathML (if you have Firefox) or plain HTML/CSS otherwise.
Thanks to MathJax, I have been able to post a long delayed analysis about optimal service levels (that the illustrating formula here above) and economic order quantity. Kudos to the MathJax team!
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