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Brian Hayes

bit-player.org

On a research-level math problem that seems to involve nothing more exotic than counting, adding, and subtracting.

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MathJax Turns 3.0

When I launched bit-player.org in 2006, displaying any sort of mathematical notation on the web was torture. I would typeset an equation in LaTeX, convert the output to a JPEG image, upload the image file to a directory on the server, and embed a reference to the file in an HTML img tag. The process was cumbersome and…