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Genuine question: why did you out $ signs next to the formula? I normally only see those put next to variable names.

LaTeX uses those to render math formulas. E.g. https://www.openmath.net/latex_reference.html

Some people are so used to it, that they can read in latex

Ah, okay, thanks for explaining! Yeah, I don't know LaTeX. Haha.