Why is my latest post appearing as an empty post?

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  gasstationwithoutpumps · Member · Feb 28, 2013 at 4:30 am

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  My latest post http://gasstationwithoutpumps.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/twenty-first-day-of-circuits-class/
  displays as an empty post, on my main page, as a page by itself, and on the RSS feed, but the edit window for it shows it as being all there, and pingbacks were posted on the pages it referred to. I tried clearing my cache, but that did not change anything. I’m afraid to close my browser (and lose the changes on the edit page) until I have evidence that WordPress.com has not lost what I wrote.

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  gasstationwithoutpumps · Member · Mar 1, 2013 at 5:35 am

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  I found the problem myself. I had started a latex formula, but ended it with ) (the standard LaTeX closure) instead of $. Rather than report an unmatched delimiter, WordPress simply hid the entire contents of the post.

  I like having LaTeX in my posts (I end up with a lot of math), but WordPress. com seems to have particularly fragile handling of LaTeX.