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Rene Descartes and Computer Science
![where do you think the idea of using variables in computer science came from?](/assets/photo-1468956398224-6d6f66e22c35.98f77d9f_1eyXW2.jpg)
We use variables to represent unknown values in mathematical problems every day. Descartes, who lived during the 16th – 17th century came up with the idea to use the lower letters of the English alphabet as variables in equations (such as x, y, z
) and the upper letters of the alphabet as constants (a, b, c
).