Recently I made an edit into this question in Literature SE. The added part is a link inside a tag:
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The mot was made by mathematician Poincaré in his essay [The future of mathematics](https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Poincare_Future/): "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things."
Follow up: [Is poetry the art of giving different names to the same thing?](https://literature.stackexchange.com/q/5220/1015)</sup>
This is how it renders:
This is fine in another post, say this question:
I'm not sure if this the result of switching to CommonMark or not.