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It isn't Zalgo (Zalgo is abusive use of Unicode symbols, not for their intended purpose). It's using a unicode symbol (combining overline) for its intended purpose, repeating decimals.[1][2] Is there a better, built-in Arc md way of displaying a repeating decimal?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overline



You may be on an OS that renders the overline in a not-annoying way.

On MacOS, here's what we see: https://i.imgur.com/c90WOgO.png

I can imagine that this wasn't your intent, and maybe it shows up differently on Windows or Linux. If so, you might want to say so.

(If it was your intent for it to look like that, though, then I agree it's the pedantic equivalent of Zalgo.)


It renders as-expected on NetBSD, Linux and Haiku. If you check the linked Overline Wikipedia page, «Overline (markup)» and «Overline (character)» look near-equivalent.

I see what may have been the problem, though. It looks like somewhere in the process the overline was duplicated. Probably an issue with my IME (I've been working on it for a while now, but it's still got a few quirks). Does this (6̅) look right to OS X users?


Bingo! That looks perfect. :)

Always nice to clear up a miscommunication. dances around

Have a great evening.


You too, Shawn.


Oddly enough, the repeating symbol looks fine on iOS but not macOS..


Is there a better

Since 2005, the accepted internet convention[1] has been 'repeating of course'

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4&t=71s


Ah ok.




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