Slashed letter O, unslashed letter zero

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Apr 26 12:48:23 CDT 2022


On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 11:25 AM Shoppa, Tim via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> This website has a history of slashing the letter O (and also ticked,
> center-dotted, etc.) oriented around computing:
> https://circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/characters/slashed-o/index.html


Now I understand...

For me, who started coding in the late 70s, it was always the number 0 that
was slashed, dotted, or otherwise made to look 'odd', never the letter o.

Warner


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