variable
A letter in a formula that stands for a number to be filled in later; the blank on the recipe card.
Examples
In y = 0.5\,x_1 + 0.2\,x_2 + 1, the variables x_1 and x_2 are the two blanks; plugging in 2 and 3 gives 2.6.
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