• Funkytom467
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    42 months ago

    Maybe it’s not universal but in school literal equation basically meant there were letters instead of numbers.

    It’s the term we use for instance when going from the equation of a line like y=3x+2 to lines in general y=ax+b (a and b in ℝ)

    And i agree it’s a lot better to specify to solve for x (because you can solve for anything or have multiple variables).

    Although x being a variable, and solving for it would be the most logical assumption.