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Do you know about some tools which can be used for online chat about mathematics? In particular, I am interested in software which would be able to render LaTeX formulas. (Since LaTeX is probably the fastest possibility to type mathematics.)

Have you tried some of them? What are their advantages and drawbacks?

NOTE 1: In this question I am asking only about solutions how to type mathematics in chat, not about possibility to use video and sound. (For the purposes of this question, assume that only keyboard, mouse and display are plugged to your computer.)

NOTE 2: I will post some possibilities I am aware of in the answers. But I would be grateful if someone who tried these applications could expand these answers a little more.

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    Some links, which might be relevant: [Tools for long-distance collaboration](http://mathoverflow.net/questions/49384/tools-for-long-distance-collaboration) at MO, [Does a Math Chat Application exist that doesn’t require knowlege of LaTeX](http://mathoverflow.net/questions/61339/does-a-math-chat-application-exist-that-doesnt-require-knowlege-of-latex) at MO, [Online physics collaboration tools](http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/7809/online-physics-collaboration-tools) from physics.SE, ...2011-11-12
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    ... and [Mathematics via Distance Drawing](http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5621) from Category Theory mailing list.2011-11-12
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    Theoretically it might be possible to make your LaTeX-code into pictures and - if the chat client enables this - paste them into chat. It seems that there are [many possibilities](http://www.google.com/#&q=latex+online) how to do this, e.g. [this](http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php) online equation editor. But this solution is not so neat and much slower than typing LaTeX code directly into the chat. (I occasionally used such approach to get mathematical formulas into emails.)2011-11-12
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    GmailTeX if you use gmail2011-11-12
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    "Since LaTeX is probably the fastest possibility to type mathematics" Have you seen ASCIIMathML?2013-10-31
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    Maybe https://mathchat.herokuapp.com/chat ?2018-04-11

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