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They are used to enable people to communicate. After all, you are reading this answer in the form of 26 symbols (plus a few for punctuation). The only significance for the letter "c" is that which is accorded it by the common convention that both of us use.
In a different context, and with a different audience, the same letter could have meant:
- the intercept of an equation of a straight line,
- the constant of proportionality in a direct or inverse relationship,
- the constant of integration in an indefinite integral,
- the speed of light in vacuum,
- 100 (Roman numeral).
Moreover, if I had written in code the same symbol could have meant something quite different.
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