aaron
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Marcella Francesca 
øh... 🤣
@bitchboss ØMG is deeper than i thought 😆
EQIt's also a normal letter in some languages...
Neo Ehproque
Becca@bitchboss and because of standards relating to usage of this symbol, manufacturers generally do not slash their zeros anymore. part of ASME Y14.5
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Back in the stone age (1978-ish), I had to submit my code to a punch-card operator. I had to explicitly state at the top of every sheet that 'slashed' meant 'zero' and 'unslashed' meant 'alpha' 🙂
You know what I mean. Alphabetical letter O as opposed to a numerical '0'.
Or did I miss a funny? Hey ho...
Ozzelot 
mathew
Tiggy
Michael B.
Rob Homsi@mbletmathe @tiggy @bytebro @tlayoyo Having moved to Canada from Germany, I have difficulty unlearning adding the hook to the 1 because it's mistaken for a 7 here.
Oh that's always been a thing, which is why the 'seven' was 'crossed', and the 'one' was not. Kind of the same as the 'zed' or 'zee' which would be 'crossed', and 'two', which was not.
Steve Leach
Ray McCarthy@tlayoyo
ICL Computer punch card operators expected slashed Oh O Ø, but other computer system operators (reading handwritten coding sheets) assumed it was a slashed zero 0. I can type Ø (The Scandi letter) on Linux but not slashed zero, though there may be a method.
The ICL made somewhat more sense as the Ø Character existed before computers, Except it's a Runic / Nordic / Scandi O, not the English O with a slash.
The Wikipedia disambiguation is 100% correct!
And why there was no confusion between I and 1? 👀 i to this date struggle more with this two characters
@tlayoyo
or capital I and small l on sans.
The 1, I and l are not ambiguous in many hand scripts. The 1 in some countries is like a closed up 7 and 7 often has a stroke. The l would have a slight tail.
The default sans-serif fonts are terrible.
Though many typewriters, especially portable. had no 0 and 1. Also the " and ' was invented for typewriters. You could create characters by backspace and overprint and this was on Wordstar etc.
mirabilos@raymaccarthy @tlayoyo yeah, sans-serif is overrated and 90% of its use is misuse; on the laptop I apply generous
userContent.css fixes, on the smartphone I’m SOL
Mike Gerdts@tlayoyo imagine the chaos back in the day if you needed to type out your alphanumeric password one of these typewriters.
https://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/why-did-old-typewriters-not-have-a-number-one-key/
Why did old typewriters not have a number one key? - Das Keyboard Mechanical Keyboard Blog
When looking at old typewriters, you’ll notice the key for number one is missing. It’s not because someone took it out or because it broke. Here is another one: So did you find out why the one key is missing? Here is the answer: the number one key was not implemented by design. Instead, the...
@tlayoyo @raymaccarthy slashed oh (zero) is a font stylistic choice; slashed letter o is a different letter from the unslashed letter o and pronounced higher (like german ö)
undeuxtrois@undeuxtrois yøu sneaky yøu
jandockx 🤹🏻
sythys
Firstyear
Mike
Weird Socks@tlayoyo
I've never seen the second thing in the wild. Have you?
Ah. It was briefly a thing for IBM computers prior to the 1970s.
Irenes (many)
john localhost@ireneista @tlayoyo did they name it that just to make wikipedia more confusing
trusty falxter 🧠
stirz ✅
Lars Brinkhoff@tlayoyo We should slash all letters to make them more distinguished.
Arcanoloth@tlayoyo No love for the empty set ∅? How sad :-P
Fran O'Reilly
🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣@tlayoyo I highly doubt that slashed O is actually "used to distinguish it from 0 (zero)", slashed O is used in some languages including Norwegian and Danish… Looks like someone came up with some fake reason why slashed O exists…
It's true that slashed 0 (zero) has been made up to distinguish it from the letter O… The other way around sounds like some random bullshit…
Codey McCodeface
Jeda65
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ℂ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖@world: /# 
@tlayoyo lmaø - ø is also the symbol for an empty set in math!
Jeffrey Haas@tlayoyo And one more to the mix.
I remember getting grief and my grade being reduced by a teaching assistant at university when I used a slashed zero as I'd done for some time.
Reid 
Bård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)Øyh... Føkk åff ænd stopp bullying my letters! 😅
Btw... last week I worked at av event sponsored by Monster
Or "Mønster" as it says in the logo...
Which, in Norwegian, is what we call it when you're knitting something with a nice pattern on it 🙃
(Also, if that pattern is made of monsters, it would be a monster-mønster) 😎
Tomas EkeliØyh! Never thought of that! 🤩
ftg@baardhaveland @tlayoyo
Kainda how The StargÅate logo always made me pronounce it mentally as Stargoat, with a swedish accent.
Kainda how The StargÅate logo always made me pronounce it mentally as Stargoat, with a swedish accent.
@baardhaveland @ftg @tlayoyo I liked all the shows, in one way or another. I even liked universe, after a while. But that one is better suited for binging.
@baardhaveland this is so cute 😍