From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pdagog at gmail.com (Pierre DAVID) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:40:14 +0200 Subject: [COFF] On having a slash In-Reply-To: <7a49e48b-eccc-e966-3fe8-c482676381c1@kilonet.net> References: <5AFF5796-5D64-4CCB-8FCE-E06005282D79@kdbarto.org> <7a49e48b-eccc-e966-3fe8-c482676381c1@kilonet.net> Message-ID: <20200413154014.GA30852@vagabond> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:29:07AM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote: >I slash my 0's, but that's it, having always had TECO on a PDP-10 >with an LA36 to start with. > >I remember a lot of my math teachers that had ZERO experience with a >computer marking up things as you describe. Z, 7, 0 (zero), etc. >Maybe mathematical formulas were the origin? > When I was a student, I once cheated during an exam (I know, I'm ashamed) by giving the answer to my neighbor and friend: I gave him the good answer, which was a "0" (zero). My friend got a bad grade, since he read "ΓΈ", the symbol for "empty set". Pierre