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1) Combining emoji compose into a finite and reasonably small set of combined symbols. The set of mathematical formulas isn't finite in the same kind of way.

2) Layout of mathematical formulas is reasonably complicated. It doesn't make sense to force that complexity to be included in every text layout engine.




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