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ænyøne with me? (europe.pub)
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As a Norwegian, I find it annoying that they "stole" Ø for that purpose. I put a backslash through my zeros instead, so it looks different. I usually pick a coding font with dotted zeros for the same reason.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    As a former math major, it annoys me because 0 and Ø are different concepts.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Your comment led me down a bit of a rabbit hole and I found this on Wikipedia:

    When writing in languages such as Danish and Norwegian, where the empty set character may be confused with the alphabetic letter Ø (as when using the symbol in linguistics), the Unicode character U+29B0 ⦰ REVERSED EMPTY SET may be used instead.

    It also mentions what you are alluding to:

    In the past, "0" (the numeral zero) was occasionally used as a symbol for the empty set, but this is now considered to be an improper use of notation.

    And, as a programmer, don't get me started on nulls...or undefined...or truthyness.

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