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Next week the World Wide Web Consortium, the Web's governing body, is expected to give the new language, called MathML, a "recommendation". This is the closest it gets to defining a standard, and will essentially give software authors the go-ahead to develop applications for MathML.
Mathematicians and scientists have been increasingly frustrated with HTML's inability to include mathematical expressions. To show an equation on a Web page, researchers must create it in an editing program, save it as an image file in a format such ...
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