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    Yup, Detexify has become the best way to do this
    – Joseph Wright
    Commented Jul 26, 2010 at 19:38
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    Detexify is particularly useful if you get it on a device with a touch screen (there are Android/iPhone apps for it) -- personally, I find it rather difficult to draw with my mouse, but finger works fine :)
    – Tara
    Commented May 31, 2011 at 19:49
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    It's worth pointing out that the Select from the complete list! link in the results list will display the symbols list ordered by score, so it's more useful than the intimidating term complete list might suggest.
    – Jake
    Commented Oct 21, 2011 at 6:25
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    @DavidPoole: For Wikipedia articles, try clicking the [edit] button. It will show you the source, for math it is almost the same as LaTeX. It's a nice way to find out certain things, and also usefull for copying entire formulas ;) Commented Sep 2, 2012 at 20:06
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    Note to oneself: when it is in a more advanced level, think to speak of http://martin-thoma.de/write-math/.
    – Clément
    Commented Jul 17, 2014 at 7:30