LaTeX & Maths: Equation Environment and Labeling Equations

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In this post we talk about Why the equation environment is important, how you can label your equations and how you can call these equations. Let's start!!!

In this post I gave you a brief introduction to the equation environment, at the end of that post we compare the equation environment with the displayed formulas, but what is the difference between these environments

Equation Environment

In the equation environment you can Label your equations and refer to these later. Do you remember that here I talked about the Cross-Referencing mode.

Labeling Equations

The convention to label an equation is

E: equation

\label{E: my Formula}

So, if you want to label your equation, the label must be inside the equation environment

\begin{equation}
    \label{E: first}
    2x+3=y
\end{equation}

Referencing equations

In this post I talked about how to reference elements which were labeled. Let's remember a little and introduce a new way to do this

Let's assume we labeled our element as \label{E: first} you can use \ref{} but for equations is more useful \eqref{}

Produces

Did you notice? \eqref adds a pair of parentheses

Ok ok, but what if we want to give to our equation a name instead of a number? Can I do that? The answer is YES but that is topic for the next post

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