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There’s an (x - x) in there
Technically there is a (x - 𝑥) in there.
U+1D465 != xso this post is a little mehMathematicians do weird stuff to get more letters, but I've never seen anyone use x and 𝑥 for different things
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.