<div dir="ltr">Indeed, the ambiguous symbol is a particular problem in passwords.<div style><br></div><div style>Clever password-generating software never use zero, "O", 1, capital "i", or lowercase "L" to avoid these confusions. </div>
<div style>I wish they all would... particularly those systems that display the generated password in a sans serif typeface. </div><div style>Grrr.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 June 2013 16:11, ken price <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenjprice@gmail.com" target="_blank">kenjprice@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Over the years I have had people complain that a computer won't accept<br>
the value they are putting in, when in fact they are entering the<br>
letter O to represent the number zero. This is typically in an online<br>
form where they are entering the number of children in a family, the<br>
number of days of sick leave used etc.<br>
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I've also had English teachers maintain that pronouncing zero as "oh"<br>
was correct, so 11703 gets pronounced as one one seven oh three. They<br>
tend to get upset about incorrect pronunciation of the letters h and z<br>
, however.<br>
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Ken<br>
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Roland Gesthuizen <<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Crikey, I wondered about that too! Teaching Officer makes perfect sense. I<br>
> notice you were careful with your typing TO0 ;-)<br>
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> The Tee Ohh number somehow morphed into a Tee Zero. I think it has happened<br>
> at our college too (admin system ??)<br>
><br>
> I enjoy explaining to students why I slash my zeros and sevens, can add this<br>
> to the mix.<br>
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> Regards Roland<br>
><br>
> Roland Gesthuizen | eLearning Leader<br>
> Keysborough College DEECD<br>
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