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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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There’s an (x - x) in there

[–] copd 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Technically there is a (x - 𝑥) in there. U+1D465 != x so this post is a little meh

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] joshthewaster 2 points 2 hours 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.