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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Actually, one symbol is zero and the other symbol is one. Power (on and off) is a binary state, so someone decided to use a binary symbol.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Well, it is not really a line and a circle. This is the digital age and it is a 1 and a 0. 1 is on while 0 is off.
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Perhaps so. But I've never seen a font where the 0 is perfectly round. I also suspect the intent was to make it symbols, rather than glyphs, to be international (though numerals
are pretty international these days, so perhaps not), but in any case, I rather doubt it's meant to be 1 and 0.
Besides, the average person knows exponentially
less about binary than they do about electricity.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
When a computer only uses 1's and 0's it might be difficult to imagine how it would make a rude gesture but now I have a picture.  |
Look at the version where the line and circle are juxtaposed, so that the line points upward, breaking the circle ... it does look something like a rude gesture, now that it's pointed out.
Of course it's
also another point against the 0 1 theory.