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There are three ways to do comments in Latex.

1. The standard way to do comments puts in % and then everything on the
line after it is commented out:

Say $y = x^2 + \beta$. %Here is a comment.

2. If you put \usepackage{verbatim} at the start of your file, you can
do multiline comments like this:

\begin{comment}
Here is the first line of the comment.
Here is the second line.
Here is the third.
\end{comment}

3.If you put \newcommand{\comments}[1]{} at the start of your file, you
can have the best way of all:

Say $y = x^2 + \beta$.\comments{Here is my comment. }

Note that if you use \usepackage{verbatim}, it creates an odd
command that makes everything after it in the file a comment. Suppose
you write:

\comment{Here is what I wanted to be my comment.} Here is some more
writing for my paper.

Then not only will the words in the brackets be a comment, but all the
words after the brackets and on the next lines and pages too.

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