The editing help entry on LaTeX (at /editing-help#latex) states

LaTeX

Electrical Engineering uses MathJax to render LaTeX. You can use single dollar signs to delimit inline equations, and double dollars for blocks:

The *Gamma function* satisfying $\Gamma(n) = (n-1)!\quad\forall
n\in\mathbb N$ is via through the Euler integral

   $$
    \Gamma(z) = \int_0^\infty t^{z-1}e^{-t}dt\,.
    $$

This should read:

LaTeX

Electrical Engineering uses MathJax to render LaTeX. You can use escaped dollar signs to delimit inline equations, and double dollars for blocks:

The *Gamma function* satisfying \$\Gamma(n) = (n-1)!\quad\forall  
n\in\mathbb N\$ is defined via the Euler integral

   $$
    \Gamma(z) = \int_0^\infty t^{z-1}e^{-t}dt\,.
    $$

A rendering wouldn't hurt, either:

LaTeX

Electrical Engineering uses MathJax to render LaTeX. You can use escaped dollar signs to delimit inline equations, and double dollars for blocks. The text:

The *Gamma function* satisfying \$\Gamma(n) = (n-1)!\quad\forall  
n\in\mathbb N\$ is defined via the Euler integral

   $$
    \Gamma(z) = \int_0^\infty t^{z-1}e^{-t}dt\,.
    $$

will render as:

The Gamma function satisfying \$\Gamma(n) = (n-1)!\quad\forall
n\in\mathbb N\$ is defined via the Euler integral

$$ \Gamma(z) = \int_0^\infty t^{z-1}e^{-t}dt\,. $$

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Should also note that this is different from other SE sites – endolith Dec 9 '11 at 20:29
@endolith - Yeah, that's the source of the error. I assumed that it was obvious, but I suppose that a visiting dev could be used to the math.stackexchange.com behavior. Or maybe not. – Kevin Vermeer Dec 9 '11 at 20:31
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I don't think this is so much a "bug" as "this site decided it had an urgent need for that to change" :) Which is fine, but it's hard to update the documentation for a special case like this.

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We appreciated the site specific change : ) – Kortuk Jan 23 at 18:37
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