13 Dec
2010
13 Dec
'10
2:39 p.m.
On 2010 Dec 13, at 2:27 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Years ago as an undergrad, as I was slashing my zeros and sevens (as I
still do), a grad student tried to lecture me "decorate the alphabet,
not the numeral system". Which may be a nice idea in principal, but it
run counters to better-established conventions.
Another skill to be learned was the ability to
block-print neatly and
legibly, differentiating "1" from "I", "0" from
"O", etc. It was all
uppercase, so that simplified things somewhat. To this day, I still
put a line through my "7", although I've dropped the stroke through
my zero as most people find it to be confusing.
A long time ago, there used to be some people who put slashes through
the
letter 'o', to differentiate it from the numeral '0'. Are they ALL
dead
now?
One of MICROS~1's early attempts at OCR on their order forms gave
examples
of how they wanted the letters formed, and included slashing the letter
'o'!