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Many fonts use a slash or a dot in the center of the zero in order to distinguish it clearly from capital-oh. i.e. It's clear to me they are branding this as 0
by Nwallins 17y ago
Many fonts use a slash or a dot in the center of the zero in order to distinguish it clearly from capital-oh. i.e. It's clear to me they are branding this as 0MQ.
- mahmud 17y agoTrue story. In my teens I got a hold of the BBC Micro assembly programming manual; 6502, in all its 8-bit glory. I didn't understand much English, and I haven't had much 1-on-1 time with a computer in my life (paper hacking) so when I got that book, I was completely dumbfounded and confused by the zero with a strike through. I have never seen this symbol before in my life, and now I don't see it anywhere on the keyboard. sigh. Good news though. A few months later I was programming in Forth, learning from a self-xeroxed copy of Starting Forth, and it had the zero-slash everywhere. I am not sure when did I realize that Ø == 0. (It looks like the empty set, aka "phi" Φ) [Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98_%28disambiguation%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98_%28disambiguation%29 ]