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How do you represent figures and math equations in plain text?

https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1....

figures: This very post. Did you read it?

math equations: LaTeX.

Obviously you can represent anything you want with text.

eqn still exists for folks wanting the old-school troff-style tools.

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