Ø is an album by Underoath
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And a damn good one
Hmmm. There's room for a slash from the top left to bottom right to disambiguate this, but it'll likely end up with more slashed Os and 0s.
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Dad was a programmer on IBM 700/7000 series. He always slashed the letter O. Years later in programming people were slashing zeroes and I was mighty confused. Some greybeard explained it eventually.
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he'll always try to stop me, that Nicolas Bourbaki.
Not the empty set?
Ø - The Norwegian umlaut version of O.
We also use that to designate phasing in the electrical world.
This is why, as a Norwegian programmer, I slash my 0s with a backlash and my Øs with a forward slash.
Actually æ, ø, and å are regarded as separate letters in the Norwegian alphabet
Æ - like the a in cat
Ø - like the u in turn
Å- like the aw in paw
Here's a handy song about it
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You mean like the German Ö?
⌀ U+2300 DIAMETER SIGN
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