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Comment by hprotagonist | Hacker News Reader

you can do both, the normal markdown way:

  `$a$` squared is `$a^2$`, which is good to know for the pythagorean theorem:
  ```equation
  a^2+b^2\eq c^2
  ```

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That doesn't work because then how do you display $a$ as literal inline code?

What about:

    Inline code is ` $a$ ` automatically trimmed

But I think $`a+b`$ makes more sense (or even $$a+b$$; I mean this is markdown after all, not LaTeX).

> But I think $`a+b`$ makes more sense (or even $$a+b$$; I mean this is markdown after all, not LaTeX).

True, but it is TeX notation, and `$$ $$` for inline math goes deeply against the experienced TeXnician's intuition. Why intentionally use notation that violates some users' domain intuition when there's an alternative that's no worse?

Ah yes, agreed, then that does indeed seem like to optimal solution here.

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