People be writing words with the letters all connected in cursive so the quill didn’t have to lift up or whatever.

How come they didn’t do that with the digits in numbers?

  • gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    People do connect multiple zeros at the top

    The real thing with zero is you’re supposed to use a slash across it so it’s impossible to mistake for a o or O

    Edit: not a real slash but a diagonal line like this (maybe it is a slash but when I look it up I get this symbol instead Ø)