Superscript in markdown Github flavored

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Following this lead  I tried this in a Github README md    lt span style  vertical-align  baseline  position  relative top  -0 5em  gt text in superscript lt  span gt    Does not work  the text appears as normal  Help

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The universal solution is using the HTML tag <sup>, as suggested in the main answer.
However, the idea behind Markdown is precisely to avoid the use of such tags:
The document should look nice as plain text, not only when rendered.

Another answer proposes using Unicode characters, which makes the document look nice as a plain text document but could reduce compatibility.

Finally, I would like to remember the simplest solution for some documents: the character ^.
Some Markdown implementation (e.g. MacDown in macOS) interprets the caret as an instruction for superscript.

Ex.
Sin^2 + Cos^2 = 1
Clearly, Stack Overflow does not interpret the caret as a superscript instruction. However, the text is comprehensible, and this is what really matters when using Markdown.

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lt sup gt  and  lt sub gt  tags work and are your only good solution for arbitrary text  Other solutions include   Unicode  If the superscript  or subscript  you need is of a mathematical nature  Unicode may well have you covered   I ve compiled a list of all the Unicode super and subscript characters I could identify in this gist  Some of the more common useful ones are       SUPERSCRIPT ZERO  U 2070     SUPERSCRIPT ONE  U 00B9     SUPERSCRIPT TWO  U 00B2     SUPERSCRIPT THREE  U 00B3  n SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER N  U 207F    People also often reach for  lt sup gt  and  lt sub gt  tags in an attempt to render specific symbols like these        TRADE MARK SIGN  U 2122     REGISTERED SIGN  U 00AE    SERVICE MARK  U 2120    Assuming your editor supports Unicode  you can copy and paste the characters above directly into your document   Alternatively  you could use the hex values above in an HTML character escape  Eg   amp  x00B2  instead of     This works with GitHub  and should work anywhere else your Markdown is rendered to HTML  but is less readable when presented as raw text Markdown   Images  If your requirements are especially unusual  you can always just inline an image  The GitHub supported syntax is     Alt text goes here  if you d like  path to image png     You can use a full path  eg  starting with https    or http     but it s often easier to use a relative path  which will load the image from the repo  relative to the Markdown document   If you happen to know LaTeX  or want to learn it  you could do just about any text manipulation imaginable and render it to an image  Sites like Quicklatex make this quite easy

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Use the  lt sup gt  lt  sup gt tag   lt sub gt  lt  sub gt  is the equivalent for subscripts   See this gist for an example

[github] Superscript in markdown (Github flavored)?

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