We would all start speaking math.
Twelve is twelve, PERIOD
Math uses letters to indicate that specific numbers are not known or as an abbreviation for certain constant.
Satan put letters in math during the time period in which the emancipation proclamation was being signed
dozen
In ordinary everyday letters . . . pi In Greek letters . . . Π
Trig
Variables
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Letters used in math are called variables.
Arithmetic
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