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Chinese numbers (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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To be fair, zero is a complicated number

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[-] qaz@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, why didn't they just go with 0 lines?

Edit: /s

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's basically what Arabic numerals did.

"I circled the zero lines here."

[-] Mischala@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago

Holy shit.. That means fonts that differentiate Zero from Capital O with a dot or line are technically false...

[-] mac@infosec.pub 2 points 7 months ago

Sometimes you need to explicitly state a zero and a blank space could be misconstrued.

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