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Introduction

LaTeX\LaTeX is software used for preparing documents with excellent support for including Mathematics.

It can be used for making diagrams, writing exams and booklets, or preparing slides.

It is not a word processor like MS Word or Google docs! Rather than typing into a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor, you type plain text which is exported to a .pdf when compiled.

For example,

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\end{document}

Results in the following: