{"id":762187,"date":"2023-08-03T11:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=762187"},"modified":"2023-08-03T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:50:02","slug":"x-marks-the-unknown-in-algebra-but-xs-origins-are-a-math-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=762187","title":{"rendered":"X marks the unknown in algebra, but X&#039;s origins are a math mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though &#8220;x&#8221; is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, it appears throughout American culture\u2014from Stan Lee&#8217;s X-Men superheroes to &#8220;The X-Files&#8221; TV series. The letter x often symbolizes something unknown, with an air of mystery that can be appealing\u2014just look at Elon Musk with SpaceX, Tesla&#8217;s Model X, and now X as a new name for Twitter.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-08-unknown-algebra-math-mystery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X marks the unknown in algebra, but X&#8217;s origins are a math mystery<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though &#8220;x&#8221; is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, it appears throughout American culture\u2014from Stan Lee&#8217;s X-Men superheroes to &#8220;The X-Files&#8221; TV series. The letter x&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}