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philh on Jan 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Computer Scientists and Google+: Something Interes...

Extensions exist that convert LaTeX to images on-the-fly.

And in a lot of cases (∄ comes to mind) there's just no good ASCIIfication, so inline LaTeX is almost as good as anything else even for people without those extensions.

nitrogen on Jan 4, 2012 [–]

I can definitely see the case for ∄. You could use !E, but at that point you might as well just type out \not\exists or use Unicode.

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