A term.
Term
A number that one is solving for-the unknown.
Since the variable may be real or complex, there is no single word or phrase to describe such a thing.
The word "variable" represents an unknown number.
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a variable minus a number and the same variable is b-6b= -5b
The most likely reason for this is that allowing variable names to start with a number would introduce ambiguity as to whether a word is a variable or a number. As it is, the compiler can tell which is which just by examining the first character.
the number next to a variable that multiplies the variable
The base word for variable is "vary".
The opposite of the word "constant" is "variable".
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
For example in the term 3x the number is the coefficient of the variable x