: Re: How do you format equations in MLA? I'm currently writing an acedemic paper on the topic of computation time. I have to include several equations similar to the following: O(N2) I am wondering

@Margaret427

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There are a set of rules to go by when writing equations into an academic paper. Depending on the kind of equation, it'll be one of three types:

In-line equations
Displayed, but unnumbered, equations
Displayed and numbered equations

In this case, O(N2) is an In-line equation. Given that, the only changes to be done would be to italicize the characters 'O' and 'N'. Rather than writing out O(N2), you should instead use O(N2).

For further reading on this topic, a useful PDF can be found here.

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