---
title: "Math support in Markdown"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/math-support-in-markdown-i-qjmmbev
source_url: https://github.blog/2022-05-19-math-support-in-markdown/
type: article
source: "GitHub Blog"
published: 2022-05-19T17:50:30.413Z
updated: 2026-03-15T05:11:42.373Z
tags: ["data-science", "general-programming", "github", "math"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 204
comments: 10
language: en
---

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# Math support in Markdown

**[GitHub Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog)** · 1 min read · 204 upvotes · 10 comments

## Summary

From today, you can use the $ and $$ delimiters natively in Markdown on GitHub to insert math expressions. This content is then rendered using the highly popular MathJax library. Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists and mathematicians.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@aramlr** · 3 upvotes

> It's about time to add this feature, it's too important.

**@galitan** · 3 upvotes

> Wow, I didn't even think that could be possible

**@ghost** · 2 upvotes

> MathJax to the rescue!

**@maxalthaus** · 1 upvotes

> Very useful. Thank you

**@wlf** · 1 upvotes

> Allowing extensions would be neat, but I'm not sure if they would do that.
>
> Cool stuff though.

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