Forcing Math via Entities

If ax² + bx + c = 0 then x = (-b ± (b² - 4ac)^½) / 2a

The HTML code for inserting an entity has the following components:

• an ampersand
• either
  • a hash mark followed by the character number, or
  • the character name (much less support for this)
• a semicolon

• © is generated by &#nnn; for nnn=169
• & is generated by &xxx; for xxx=amp

• Character Entities in HTML
• HTML ASCII - A complete ASCII table for HTML. All the HTML special characters. Useful for inserting special characters, and spaces, in WEB pages.
• ISO8859-1 (Latin-1) Table

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