13 Apr
2020
13 Apr
'20
9:40 p.m.
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