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Simplify (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Mathematicians do weird stuff to get more letters, but I've never seen anyone use x and 𝑥 for different things

[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 5 days ago

I've never seen anyone use x and 𝑥 for different things

Yeah, me neither. I have had situations where I needed to distinguish between u, v, nu, and upsilon though. I had to be very careful with my handwriting that day...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

They also wouldn't want to be ambiguous. If I was trying to write this problem the a, b, c... would get replaced by something like a_1, a_2,..., a_26 to be clearer. This problem works as a fun gotcha but isn't something that would come up in the real world.