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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice

Considerably smaller. Let's use the Taylor series expansion as an example.

In LaTeX this can be written as:

f(x)=\sum_{k=0}^\infty f^{(k)}(a)\frac{(x-a)^k}{k!}

This is 51 characters total. The MathML version is a little more verbose at 867 characters:

<math display="block" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>f</mi><mrow><mo stretchy="true" form="prefix">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy="true" form="postfix">)</mo></mrow><mo>=</mo><munderover><mo>∑</mo><mrow><mi>k</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn></mrow><mo accent="false">∞</mo></munderover><msup><mi>f</mi><mrow><mo stretchy="true" form="prefix">(</mo><mi>k</mi><mo stretchy="true" form="postfix">)</mo></mrow></msup><mrow><mo stretchy="true" form="prefix">(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="true" form="postfix">)</mo></mrow><mfrac><msup><mrow><mo stretchy="true" form="prefix">(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>a</mi><mo stretchy="true" form="postfix">)</mo></mrow><mi>k</mi></msup><mrow><mi>k</mi><mi>!</mi></mrow></mfrac></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f(x)=\sum_{k=0}^\infty f^{(k)}(a)\frac{(x-a)^k}{k!}</annotation></semantics></math><

But it's trying to be unambiguous. The SVG version is 28621 characters which I'm not going to put here.

Assuming 1 character is 1 byte which isn't quite accurate the LaTeX version 0.05KB, the MathML version is 0.85KB and the SVG version is 27.95KB. And the PNG version I made that's tolerable is 1.3KB.

That is quite a bit of difference!!

Thanks for the info!