Rudolff's symbol for unknown

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I have read Florian Cajori's book "A history of mathematical notations."

Cajori explained about several symbols for unknown. Rudolff used weird symbols.

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I could identify some symbols: "z" for zensus, "c" with a loop for cubus, "eszett ß" for sursolidum.

But, I could not understand the symbol for radix. It looks like conjunction of "2" and "e".

Could you teach me which letter was used for radix?