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When a symbol is used for a number it could be any symbol at all. It could be a letter from the Roman or Greek alphabet, upper case or lower case. It could also be any random symbol that you like provided that it is not a "reserved" symbol. By that I mean you cannot use "+" as a symbol since that might be very confusing!

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