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equationEnvironment

Used for a numbered displayed equation that should participate in equation tagging.

\begin{equation} a = b + c \end{equation}
Topic
Alignment
Available in
base
Allowed mode
math
Body mode
math
Frequency
37.20% of corpus formulasrank 1 of 31
Commonality
high
Renderer support
PackageMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
baseMathJax: FullKaTeX: NoneXeTeX: Full
About the test scope

Syntax#

\begin{equation}…math body\end{equation}

Takes no arguments. Reading argspecs

Common tasks#

How to write a single numbered equation#

\begin{equation} E=mc^2 \end{equation}

How to number a displayed fraction#

\begin{equation} \frac{a}{b}+\frac{c}{d}=\frac{ad+bc}{bd} \end{equation}

How to wrap a split derivation in one number#

\begin{equation} \begin{split} a &= b+c \\ &= d \end{split} \end{equation}

Examples#

\begin{equation} \int_0^1 x^2 \, dx = \frac{1}{3} \end{equation}

In TeXForm#

TeXForm reads the environment body in math mode.

See also#

Test cases#

base
InputCaseMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
\begin{equation} a \end{equation}Positive · baselinePassFailPass
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