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Use this tag for questions about the usage of articles (e.g. a, an, and the).

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What article do we need for a noun that is named by a letter?

According to the APA style guide, variable names should be italicized, but otherwise incorporated into text as usual. In your example, p is definite so I would either use "the" or no article at all. I …
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