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I suspect the "X" branding for these companies has less to do with Roman numerals and more to do with the prominent use of "X" in mathematics as a unknown varia
by omoikane 3y ago
I suspect the "X" branding for these companies has less to do with Roman numerals and more to do with the prominent use of "X" in mathematics as a unknown variable, and that's due to René Descartes according to:
https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/8109/why-are-x-and-y-commonly-used-as-mathematical-placeholders https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/8109/why-are-x-and-y...
- orls 3y agoThere’s also a history of using ‘X’ as the designation for eXperimental planes, e.g the X-15. I always assumed that was the inspiration for the use in tech branding like Google X - conjuring up images of skunkworks, etc.
- a-dub 3y agohmm: mac os: numeral generation: variable google: eXperimental! malcom: variable elon: hey yo, check it out i tried to register x.com and actually got it! the question is... chitter or xitter?