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Markdown fucked your comment. Use escape symbols.
Escape symbols?
Never mind, here's another better way to do this:
^6^⁄~2(1+2)~ ⇒ ^6^⁄~2*3~ ⇒ ^6^⁄~6~ ⇒ 1
Works on the web page, but looks weird on some mobile app. Markdown is a fucking mess. Some implementation has MathJax support, some have special syntaxes.
Lemmy* markdown is a fuckin mess. It's way better elsewhere. & <>
oooh this looks very pretty on hexbear, thanks friend!
Yeah connect for lemmy didn't sort the out very well.
You're more patient than me to go to that trouble! 😂 But yeah, looks good. Just one technicality (and relates to how many people arrive at the wrong answer), the 2x3 should be in brackets. Yes if you had a proper fraction bar it wouldn't matter, but that's what's missing with inline writing, and is compensated for with brackets (and brackets can't be removed unless there's only 1 term inside). In your original comment, it does indeed look like 6/(2x3), but, to illustrate the issue with what you wrote, as soon as I quoted it, it now looks like (6/2)x3 in my comment.
Lemmy interprets some symbols as formatting commands, for example putting a # at the start of a line turns it into a header:
## header
You can tell it to not do that by putting a backslash before the symbol:
\# not a header
The backslash is called the escape symbol.
Cheers mate