She said numeral O. Did the word zero not exist back then.

*learn

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That seemed odd to me too. Certainly zero (and nought) existed.

Dirty commies used zero. Freedom loving Americans use numeral O

1954 - "Make sure you dial the correct number to make sure you do waste your time or inconvenience the person on the other line".

2018 - txt "send nudes plz"

You have a point, it was always double OH seven.

I remember the stress put on distinguishing zero from O back in college CS classes, quite a while ago. Presumably for the sake of the keypunch operators' time.

Indeed, when the only way of producing a character is to write it, distinguishing a character from a glyph may seem to depend on an absurdly fine point. Printers had to understand, but most people weren't printers. I have seen a number of older typewriters that dispensed with both 0 and 1: One just used O and l instead.

Thank you, nice telephone lady, for showing me how to write down numbers. I am more the edified.

I remember as a child people referred to the prefix 729 as Randolph 9. And 242 as Cherry 2. It turns out that the operator stations were located on Randolph Street and Cherry Street!

Mmmmmmmid-Atlantic accent.

Remember, in numerical order, O comes last. Because O is selfish that way.

Thank you! I've always wondered WTF the names were for. Just never remembered to Google it.

ie. Jenny 4, 867-5309