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Chinese numbers (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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

Edit: /s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's basically what Arabic numerals did.

"I circled the zero lines here."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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

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