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Above is an image of what I'm seeing in the following question: trying to understand this proof of sylows theorem that say the number of p-sylow subgroups is 1+kp

Is this overlay of the MathJax outside the question area a known issue? Is there any plan to resolve it? I'm not going to lose any sleep over it but it seems undesirable.

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    $\begingroup$ Putting the offending formula into displayed math mode (=inside double dollars) took care of it. At least for me. There was simply no suitable spot for MathJax to insert a line break. I would call this bungled TeX rather than a bug :-/. It might be better still to use a \begin{aligned}...\end{aligned} construct. My initial reaction was to do it that way and to align the implication arrows on top of each other. But simply inserting those double dollars already improved matters, so I stopped there. $\endgroup$ – Jyrki Lahtonen Dec 23 '18 at 3:49
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    $\begingroup$ What the heck. I decided to break it into multiple lines as described above. The reason is that the single line flashed temporarily when reloading the page (though it was automagically fixed in a second or so). Anyway, there are these little ways of helping any form of TeX. And many of us have the edit privilege. $\endgroup$ – Jyrki Lahtonen Dec 23 '18 at 3:55
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    $\begingroup$ In case somebody wants to look at the variants: the original, after converting to double dollars. The link in Matt's post points at the current version. $\endgroup$ – Jyrki Lahtonen Dec 23 '18 at 8:50
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    $\begingroup$ It's definitely something that comes up from time to time, see math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22539/… I am not sure if it is still this exact thing does I don't dupe close $\endgroup$ – quid♦ Dec 23 '18 at 12:17

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