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Poll: How do you write letter/number "x"?

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Muse

Lifer
Jul 11, 2001
40,887
10,224
136
Sometimes, when I know that others might misread my numbers. For myself, not really.
 

Kelemvor

Lifer
May 23, 2002
16,928
8
81
SO we need a bigger poll..

7's Crossed or not
4's Opened or Closed at the top
2's with a look at the bottom or a point
0's crossed or not

Any other numbers that could be done different ways?
 

archiloco

Golden Member
Dec 10, 2004
1,826
0
71
7's yes, anything else no...my handwriting is basically chicken scratch so does not really matter
 

Tiamat

Lifer
Nov 25, 2003
14,068
5
71
I cross my sevens, zees, and the only thing that sometimes gets me is ess and fives. When I have exponent of 5s, sometimes that becomes in error during the calculation and changes to 55 or ss.
 

Zolty

Diamond Member
Feb 7, 2005
3,603
0
0
7s yes zeros only when I know someone else needs to read and understand that they are zeros and not O
 

bignateyk

Lifer
Apr 22, 2002
11,288
7
0
I dont cross my 7's, but I do cross my "z". Dont slash my 0, and I selectively write my 1's correctly.

I have a habit of crossing my z's because I do alot of stuff with Z-transforms, and it gets really confusing when you start throwing 2's and z's into equations.

Likewise, I usually write my 1 as just a straight line. If I need to write an L in the equation, I either make it caps, or script lowercase.
 

novasatori

Diamond Member
Feb 27, 2003
3,851
1
0
Originally posted by: Kelemvor
SO we need a bigger poll..

7's Crossed or not
4's Opened or Closed at the top
2's with a look at the bottom or a point
0's crossed or not

Any other numbers that could be done different ways?

poll updated to reflect these

let me know any more that should be added
 

Kelemvor

Lifer
May 23, 2002
16,928
8
81
Originally posted by: novasatori
Originally posted by: Kelemvor
SO we need a bigger poll..

7's Crossed or not
4's Opened or Closed at the top
2's with a look at the bottom or a point
0's crossed or not

Any other numbers that could be done different ways?

poll updated to reflect these

let me know any more that should be added

Heh heh. SHould be neat.

BTW, I meant to type Loop for the 2's. Not sure if Hook means Loop or a point.
 

Kelemvor

Lifer
May 23, 2002
16,928
8
81
Originally posted by: novasatori
oh i was trying to guess what you meant, I meant hook for loop

Can edit the poll...

And put something in the post description that you updated the poll. heh.
 

novasatori

Diamond Member
Feb 27, 2003
3,851
1
0
Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Originally posted by: novasatori
oh i was trying to guess what you meant, I meant hook for loop

Can edit the poll...

And put something in the post description that you updated the poll. heh.

done

i had trouble thinking of a new title