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0 pointsagmater2y ago0 comments

> and I'm guessing they decided zero-with-slash is more visually ugly/less intuitive for quickly reading numbers than zero-without-slash.

Yes, it can be confused with 8.

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Or when I was in first grade and my teacher marked me down thinking I had written both a one and a zero. Never will forget that.

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0 pointsagmater2y ago0 comments

> and I'm guessing they decided zero-with-slash is more visually ugly/less intuitive for quickly reading numbers than zero-without-slash.

Yes, it can be confused with 8.

Or when I was in first grade and my teacher marked me down thinking I had written both a one and a zero. Never will forget that.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse