Math & Science ⇒ wrong output

[mahbube]

My code isn't working and I don't know why?

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$\dfrac{c[(1-p)^{\frac{-1}{c}}-1]}{p\left[c{(1-p^{\frac{-1}{c}-1}+1\right]}$
\end{document}

[Bartman]

Please provide a minimal working example and mark your code.

A right brace after the \frac command in the denominator is missing to avoid an error message and to approximate the output in the figure.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It's may be what Bartman said - but you seem to have a brace in the formula picture: to get a curly brace in the output, quote it by a backslash, \{. See and try some code, click the "Run LaTeX here" button:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$\dfrac{c[(1-p)^{\frac{-1}{c}}-1]}{p\left[c\{(1-p^{\frac{-1}{c}-1}+1\right]}$
\end{document}

If have an opening brace in a formula, you should have a closing brace. That's for input and for output.

Stefan

[mahbube]

It's may be what Bartman said - but you seem to have a brace in the formula picture: to get a curly brace in the output, quote it by a backslash, \{. See and try some code, click the "Run LaTeX here" button:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$\dfrac{c[(1-p)^{\frac{-1}{c}}-1]}{p\left[c\{(1-p^{\frac{-1}{c}-1}+1\right]}$
\end{document}

If have an opening brace in a formula, you should have a closing brace. That's for input and for output.

Stefan

thank you.