crossing your sevens

[Mercen-X]

Old Anus loses.

[Mirage]

I do it if I end up writing 7s that looks a lot like 1s, or 1s that look a lot like my 7s. If that is not the case, I do not cross them.

Additionally, my 4s are always open, and 5s are written with "short vertical line, three quarter circle, then horizontal line at the top last". I used to write 5s with one single continuous line when I was a kid, but this feels much cooler.

[I Took the Red Pill]

I do both. Though I did neither before I took Complex Analysis in college. There are so many 2's and so many z's, often in the same formulae, that it becomes essential. Eventually I started crossing my 7's; perhaps because a 7 is just 2/3 of a Z.

[Miss Lady Shelly]

I do this as well as having a bad habit of making x's with a line connecting the two right cornners

[Loony BoB]

I cross my 7s and my Zs. Like sharky, I also write my 4s closed <-----like you see there

The thing about crossing your zeros--they should only be crossed when zero is the only number. Example: You should not cross your zeros in the number 600. You should cross your zero for $0 (if you were counting a drawer or something.) The reason that line is there is that so someone can't add a number before it, and fraud money (turning 0 into 70 or something.) So you know that zero is the true answer.

Some serial numbers have 0's and O's. Some people write their 6's very similar to the 0's and it can get confusing. There are often good reasons for people to cross their 0's. I do it for serial numbers, personally.

See also: I, 1 and 7 in the same serial number. Urrrrgh. Hate that.

[Beowulf]

That's a great point, BoB. When I was working for Samsung, it was a pain in the ass having customers try and read their serial numbers to me. "Is that a 5 or an S? A B or an 8?" Oi....Maybe Samsung should cross numbers on their serial numbers....or make the bloody thing bigger...

[Jiro]

There is simply no need. Even with my chicken scrawl I manage to make sure my numbers and letters are not so similar they become interchangeable. How often do you smurfers use all of those letters/numbers in a single string of characters anyway? smurf me you're just being pretentious with your fancy smurfing handwriting rah rah rah

[Loony BoB]

How often do you smurfers use all of those letters/numbers in a single string of characters anyway?

Pretty much every day I'm at work.

[Christmas]

Did you use EoFF more or those numbers more at work?

[Slothy]

smurf me you're just being pretentious with your fancy smurfing handwriting rah rah rah

That's the problem though Jiro: if their handwriting were so fancy, they wouldn't need to cross letters and numbers that weren't meant to be crossed to make them legible. Learn to write properly you heathens.

[Loony BoB]

My writing is just fine, it's just that some people are terrible at reading.

Did you use EoFF more or those numbers more at work?

Depends on the day, really!

[Formalhaut]

I don't. Just seems like extra effort.

[Goldenboko]

There is simply no need. Even with my chicken scrawl I manage to make sure my numbers and letters are not so similar they become interchangeable. How often do you smurfers use all of those letters/numbers in a single string of characters anyway? smurf me you're just being pretentious with your fancy smurfing handwriting rah rah rah

Maybe being a Journalist you don't, but being a Software Engineer, I certainly do.

[Depression Moon]

This is a slang term for what?

[Rantz]

I cross my 7s. Chicks love it.