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Originally Posted by Quoth
Ah, it's worse than that. I've documents, manuals and books so old that the text is obviously from the ancient kind of typewriter that saved numeric keys, didn't have One or Zero only 2 to 9.
Then some publishers didn't spot this on the proofing so stuff can be type set with I or l for 1 and O for 0.
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I discussed "O vs. 0" last year in more detail on Reddit, and brought up this example:
"So 1,000 would look like I,OOO or l,ooo."
Also mentioned ! missing from keyboards (so you had to apostrophe + backspace + period).