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[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I switched to the middle one because I couldn’t tell my sevens from my ones 😅

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Does no one write their 1 as a simple line down?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

1 do, buy sometimes it can be important to make sure you mean I and not 1 (and definitely not l) if you're writing a code of some kind.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I do, but then it's too easy to confuse with absolute value. Beats confusing it with 7 though

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago (17 children)

I want to upvote, but just can't do it.

1000002141

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

7

Its everywhere dude!

Edit: that x is meant to be + but im as lazy as i am bad at math

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The trend continues (no I didn't have the patience to wait an extra hour)

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Behold! The 7 I used back in middle school..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It's beautiful

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I still use this one! Makes me feel like a fancy lad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Maximum effect!

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I started slashing my 7s and 0s in university; it's just easier to distinguish them thanks to the abundance of Greek letters, symbols, and notations used in engineering. Also my bad printing was further marred by constantly nodding off while taking notes, so anything to improve clarity.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ya. Math and engineering totally ducked up my handwriting. I mean, it was already pretty bad. But all those other letters didn't help!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

ξ fucked me up a lot more than it probably should have...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a lowercase Ξ. Glad to be of help.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

You draw sevens with a small bar in the middle because it looks better.

I draw sevens with a small bar in the middle because I have the handwriting of a goblin and my ones and sevens often look similar otherwise

We are not the same

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Doubly so if you're a le sir who Ø

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have strong feelings about this one because that is the only reasonable way to clearly distinguish numeral from letter

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well, most of the time. There's this bastard: Ø.
That's a letter, not a zero. Second-to-last letter in the Danish and Norwegian alphabets. We Swedes use Ö instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

what about putting a dot in the zero? like in monospace fonts?

ʘ ← kinda like this but squished

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

yk, the zeros are unnecessary. It's like 00007

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

True, but it's an old habit to keep it at an even 8 bits and it's a visual placeholder for me, s'all. Also, I can't even remember the last time I worked with a nibble, even with simple MCUs.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm a fan. I slash my zeros, too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Prof from Germany explained that 1 in Germany has a flag so 7 must have a slash. Seemed good enough of a compromise to slash all the 7s and give 1s flags and feet.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

this is a dashed seven thread. we don’t take kindly to straight-topped threes. double-bubble eights are also not “one of us”, nor are angle-ticked ones (if you’re gonna tick a one you better give that tick a curve). slashed and dotted zeroes are ok, but naked zeroes are heresy. overly-hooked 6s and 9s make us feel uncomfortable. triangled fours are the worst, though.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Damnit....take my upvote

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If one were truly ascended, one would write 七.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

七 is for amateurs. 柒 is where it's at.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It's like it's wearing a bow-tie 🤵

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