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Comment by bonoboTP

4 months ago

I thought the X was an allusion to LaTeX.

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jltsiren  4 months ago

Usually, when you see "ch" in a Latin word, it represents a "χ" in the original Greek word. Both TeX and arXiv use "X" to represent it instead. TeX because Knuth chose to be fancy, and arXiv because "archive" was no longer available.

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