To avoid confusion regarding what characters are letters and which are numbers, the ICD-10 uses:
a. a line through the zero to note it is a number.
b. a line through the 7 to note it is a number.
c. a line through the Z to note it is a letter.
d. no zeros or letter O's to avoid confusion.
Answer: a
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