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Best way to show Math - outside of xhtml MathML on my own web site.

The MaplePrimes web site lets me publish my Notebooks, for everyone.

This review is written in 2009. A lot is happening on the Scientific Processing front. Your average PC is faster, than ever. [Actually, most people are saying, computers are fast enough, even though Moore’s law is still climbing.) Multiple cores are now the new processor standard, with eight cores to occur, soon. Microsoft is switching us all to 64-bit systems, if we want it or not. (Don’t ask the average person about Vista. You will hear what I mean.) Math software, Wikipedia, the universe inside the Internet, computers with several monitors, advanced graphics for everyone, speech recognition getting closer – every day, videos as the new data stream, and visualization tools – capable to see everything, from our World (mapped and Satellite views) to anything we can name or tag. ]

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Glen

Timothy Cole in his Article - Title: Thoughts about Publishing Mathematics on the Web - tells exactly one of the largest problems, with most implementations of MathML. What is it?

• Search for: cole thoughts publishing mathematics
• Google Cache Link: (otherwise, you can download his PDF)
• After following the above link; Find "digital" - this will take you to the section, mentioned.

A human reader viewing will ... immediately recognize that the entity “e” appearing in both has a semantically different meaning in the two contexts.

Content from the Digital Mathematics Library of T. Cole's PDF. This is why, I am talking so much about MathML, and not just showing mini-images of x squared equations.

However, look at this page. A conference of Mathematicians, about preserving Math, searching Math, cataloging Math, and paper to XML issues, besides concerns of Publishers.

Yet, look at the date!!! It is over five years old, and there still is not a "known convention" / just how it is done, way to put an equation onto a Web Page.

So, if you have an issue with how - I'm writing MathML content? I don't care, just doing it this way, until the W3C clears up the issue, and gets everyone to follow their ruling. This is the best working solution, I have found, and Google should scrap these math pages - fine.

Glen