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Chinese numbers (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To be fair, zero is a complicated number

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[–] qaz 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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

Edit: /s

[–] Reddfugee42 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's basically what Arabic numerals did.

"I circled the zero lines here."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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