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== "Censored" numbers ==

While it's true that Japanese people use nine characters (the four symbols on the fire buttons of a PlayStation controller plus upside-down triangle, both solid black and whiteout, except × [batsu], that's just two lines) as wildcards for censoring, the whiteout circle 〇 [maru] is used almost exclusively as a placeholder for letters (romaji, kana, kanji) and the very few instances of it with this intention are most likely to appear in horizontal script (still, the solid black version is preferred). The reason for this is that the symbol 〇 in a sequence of numbers is a help for writing numbers with kanji in the western system (i.e. the same that we take 1 and 4 to write 14, they use 一 and 四 to write 一四 instead of the usual 十四), meaning "0"; thus, 一〇 means 10 (though sometimes with 1 followed by 0es, it can appear erroneously as 十〇, 百〇〇, 千〇〇〇...). This kind of writing numbers is almost exclusive to vertical script, like the one on LN (also, there was this very same problem with several numbers in the prologue and, when I checked it from the source, it was indeed this numbering at work).--[[User:Kemm|Kemm]] ([[User talk:Kemm|talk]])