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There are various stylistic and typographic variations to the Arabic numeral system.

The numerals used by Western countries have two forms: lining ("in line" or "full height") figures as seen on a typewriter and taught in North America, and old style figures, in which numerals 0, 1 and 2 are at x height; numerals 6 and 8 have bowls within x height, and ascenders; numerals 3, 5, 7 and 9 have descenders from x height; and the numeral 4 rests along the baseline. Lining figures are generally designed all the same setting width, as this makes the printing of mathematical and trigonometrical tables simpler to do and clearer to read. Non lining figures tend to be preferred where numbers occur within sentences, for instance when a date is given in figures in a line of text. British presses have been partial to "old style" numerals, even though typewriters cannot print them and they are not assigned separate Unicode values. The old style numeral one can resemble a capital "I" reduced to x height, and this can lead to confusion e. g. of the number 11 (when written in old style digits) with the Roman numeral II (meaning the number two). On the other hand, with some sans serif faces, using lining figures, there can be confusion between the figure 1, lower case l (L) and upper case I (I).

A distinction exists between the Danish/Norwegian letter "Ø," the Latin letter "O," and the numeral "0". Handwritten data to be typed into a computer necessitates having a distinction between the letter "O" and numeral "0". In English speaking countries, zero was often slashed in technical writing, and was used in many computer keyboards, screens and printing methods. Some early computerized systems for managers assumed that the numeral would be entered more often than the letter, so they slashed the letter instead. In time this became a minority practice, and it is very confusing for Danish and Norwegian speaking people. There are three ways of ticking the numeral zero to make it distinct from the letters O and Ø. A tick in the upper right corner derives from the earlier practice, a tick in the upper left corner is used to prevent confusion with all earlier practices, and the very low resolution typeface "Fixedsys" has an internal tick, that does not extend beyond the bowl, in both the upper right and lower left. This is the most elegant, but it would take quite a flourish to write it on hundreds of inventory tags. Scandinavian countries prefer a numeral zero with a dot in the middle, although low resolution displays can confuse this with a numeral eight, and it takes longer to assuredly make a dot with a ballpoint pen than making a tick.