What is the reason for writing X^2 as XX instead of X*X?

X^2 also saves on ink or space&time, takes less time to write X^2 than XxX or X*X, if you make the 2 smaller. Real time and ink saver, shave a microsecond off your writing at least. A microsecond saved is a microsecond earned as Ben Franklin might phrase it and he didn’t even have a microwave, just a microscope,, .

your choice, it’s a free country, relatively speaking. XX though are female chromosomes or movies where even parental permission won’t get you past the teller, or a shirt that’s extra large. Very confusing. Could even be the initials of Xavier Xavier, like JD Vance or George HW Bush. but what parents, Mr.&Ms Xavier would name their kid Xavier? maybe even Xavier Xavier Xavier XXX like FDR or LBJ or AOC or SEC (Securities Exchange Commission or college football’s South East Conference? led by the Crimson Tide, Roll Tide Roll! or SECANT of an angle inverse of COSINE)

helps if you’re consistent though, or you confuse people and the math police will arrest you, put their knee on your neck, do a predawn raid on your bedroom, at 3am, and drag you handcuffed and hog tied through the streets on live TV, humiliating you in front of your neighbors and the world. but we can’t allow lawless behavior like that to go on or everyone will be doing it and society will break down into roving bands of feral criminals foraging for food. worse than hungry alley cats. where will we be then? Probably didn’t think about that did you? well you should.

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Go with X^2 if you like squares or you are a square, or other terms in the problem have exponents that you need to add or subtract. X^2 times X^3 = X^(2+3) = X^5. X^2/X = X^(2–1) = X^1 = X.

you could write it as XxX, (avoid XXX), X(X), (X)(X), (X)X X^2, X*X or some put a dot waist high between the 2 X’s. if you like dots or your name is Dotty, go with dots.

XX could also mean kisses, XXX in a row or column or diagonally wins a tic tac toe game unless the other guy does OOO first, then you lose. X marks the spot on a map where you’re trying to go, or avoid. X as a signature means you’re illiterate, a really ignorant person uneducated, stupid, low IQ, <70 range, dumb as a rock or door post airhead, Dumbo, mentally incapacitated, but that doesn’t disqualify you from running for president, (unless you really blow a prime time TV debate), so all is not lost there’s still hope for you, even if they arrest and convict you of 34 X rated felonies. so hang in there, hang 5

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