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## LaTeX malfunctioning...?

I keep typing things and getting not the things I typed in LaTeX. Am I the only one?

Look at what I'm typing here

$$AD = x^{2}+(4-2x)^{2} AD = x^{2}+(4-2x)+(4-2x) AD = 2x+(-2)+(-2) AD = 2x-4$$

I'm getting

and I'm typing in LaTeX all of that (with the tex /tex function-- I believe that if you click "quote" you will see that):

-Or
 Recognitions: Gold Member Okay, something weird happened just now. The preview show something else. And now it corrected itself. Seriously, it's as though there's a delay with LaTeX or something.
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## LaTeX malfunctioning...?

I guess you refer to known problem - preview doesn't show what it should show. Try reloading the page or just the picture. This has been discussed zillions of times, and it will not change till Greg decides to replace LaTeX engine.
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 Quote by Femme_physics Oh, sorry, I thought I'm special. My bad. :) & Thanks!
I'm glad you posted. I was just looking to see if others were having the same problems as me (like Greek letters being superscripted and previews show Latex I used in previous posts). Your post gave me a swift end to the search.
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 Mentor There's at least 20 threads about this. You could have found them e.g. by searching the feedback forum for threads with "latex" in the title.
 Blog Entries: 9 Recognitions: Gold Member Test: $$x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a} \quad \text{Quadratic Formula}$$ I noticed that MathJax scripts are being called in the source; seems like still using the old LaTeX system for now...