Number 0 and letter O

odowdchr

Better still, don't use O or 0 in any important financial or activation codes.

Stephen_Leak

I have to record serial numbers of our equipment - with some of them I have actually had to resort to using a magnifying glass to read them, leave alone differentiating between 0's and O's!

superscaper

odowdchr wrote: »

Better still, don't use O or 0 in any important financial or activation codes.

Bit hard to avoid though considering serial keys and activation codes are generated or given to you.

esuhl

Donnie wrote: »

Just because people do it, doesn't make it right.

That's not strictly true with language - if people misuse or invent words and they are used often enough, they become a correct part of the language. Dictionaries are being updated all the time.

Donnie

So, which dictionary represents 'oh' as 'zero'? Brixton's new Urban Dictionary?

sleep2much

nought, that's how I learned it at school, never zero. zeros and crosses? I think the first zero I heard was on space ship countdowns....

sleep2much

Donnie wrote: »

So, which dictionary represents 'oh' as 'zero'? Brixton's new Urban Dictionary?

try here.... http://www.thefreedictionary.com/o look at option 6

frivolous_fay

culpepper wrote: »

Back in the 1980's when programmes were printed in magazines for typing into your ZX Spectrum etc,the zero was always shown with a slash across it to tell the difference.

'Zactly! (O, happy memories!)

Any time I write a 0 down and it's not clear if it might be a letter or a number, that's what I do. Phone numbers do not require a slash, needless to say...

Toxteth_OGrady

superscaper wrote: »

James Bond, known for it's technical accuracy?

Linguistically/grammatically? - Yes. Scientifically? - It's called fiction!

(......but hey ho, it's fun to prolong a circular and pointless argument!)

:cool:

TOG

esuhl

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

(......but hey ho, it's fun to prolong a circular and pointless argument!)

Ha ha - a debate about zeros and "ohs" would have to be circular! :rotfl: