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Nicer alignment of x^*/2

I'm trying to typeset $\frac{x^*}{2}$, but I can't find a (simple) way to make the alignment look nice. So far, I've tried the following: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \begin{equation} ...
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How to increase row height while using booktabs?

I'm making a table using booktabs. One of the columns contains a series of fractions. \documentclass[12pt, letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{nag} \usepackage[margin=1.0in]{geometry} ...
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votes
1answer
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Vertical spacing between numerator and division symbol in \dfrac

How can I fix the vertical spacing between the numerator and the division symbol when entering fractions. Eg. in the following code, the spacing between a and the division symbol is greater than one ...
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1answer
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displaystyle, dfrac, dcases

Am I correct in saying that the dcases environment replaces \frac with \dfrac? The replacement only occurs at the outer-most level of \frac, so if I have \documentclass{article} ...
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\frac{1-z^{n+1}}{1-z} doesn't look very good and how to leave space equal to the size of a given text

When we write it by hand we usually align the 1's in numerator and denominator. Should I change it manually, i.e. defining a command for typing the sum of the geometric progression or is there a ...