Escaping dollar sign in ipython notebook

Question

I have a markdown cell in iPython that contains four dollar signs. iPython interprets anything between dollar signs as a MathJax expression, which is not what I want. How do

Answer 1

Put two backslashes in front of dollar signs. For example:

Some prices: \\$3.10, \\$4.25, \\$8.50.

(running Jupyter notebook server 5.7.0)

Answer 2

I'm aware that this topic is old, but it's still somehow the first google result and its answers are incomplete.

You can also surround the $ with `backticks`, the same way that you would display code in Jupyter.

So $ becomes `$`, and should display without error

Answer 3

If you use <span>$</span>, MathJax won't process it as a delimiter. You should be able to enter that in Markdown. For example, I've used that here: $ This is not math $.

Answer 4

Add a backward slash before the dollar sign: \$

Answer 5

Did you try using the equivalent HTML entity instead?:

e.g.

Answer 6

You can escape $ with math mode by using a backslash. Try $\$$