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Fletcher Penney created a “Multi” extension of this format compatible with LaTeX (“LAY-tech”). The most popular implementation of this format is only on version 0.30 (15[1])despite being worked on for over 8 years, due to unresolved decisions like the formatting of atx headers. That implementation’s spec was written by Berkeley philosopher John MacFarlane. In 2014, StackOverflow founder Jeff Atwood announced a standardization effort for this format called “Standard [this format]”, though that name was changed to “Common [this format]” after objections from its (15[1])co-creator (*) John Gruber. Reddit uses an extension of this format that supports things like spoilertext, (10[1]-5[1])while (10[1])GitHub has its own (10[1])“GitHub Flavored” version that implements strikethroughs with pairs of tildes. For 10 points, name this text format commonly used for blogging and code documentation, such as in GitHub’s README.md (“read me dot m-d”) files. ■END■

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