Claude prompt to show math in plain text without LaTeX
Anthropic’s instruction for getting Claude to write math answers in plain text, without LaTeX markup.
- Model
- Claude
- Task
- Study
- Source
- Official example from Anthropic
Anthropic’s prompting guide notes that Claude’s latest models default to LaTeX for mathematical expressions, equations and technical explanations, which shows up as symbols like $ and \frac{}{} when your app or notes do not render it. Paste this instruction into your message, a project’s instructions or a system prompt, and Claude is asked to write math with ordinary characters such as / for division and ^ for exponents. It suits homework help pasted into plain-text notes or chat apps.
The prompt is quoted from Prompting best practices - Claude API Docs.
- Prompt
- Format your response in plain text only. Do not use LaTeX, MathJax, or any markup notation such as ( ), $, or \frac{}{}. Write all math expressions using standard text characters (e.g., "/" for division, "*" for multiplication, and "^" for exponents).
- What it produces
- Tells Claude to write equations and math explanations with ordinary characters instead of LaTeX markup.
- Parameters
- None; add it to your message, project instructions or system prompt
- Source link
- platform.claude.com
- Added
Questions
Why does Claude show dollar signs and backslashes in math answers?
Where do I put this instruction?
What does Claude use instead of LaTeX?
See also
Sources: each prompt is quoted from the official example or the public post linked on its page. Promptline is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Midjourney.