Well, I wouldn't know for sure, but I haven't seen it differently yet (yes, I know, anecdotal). I don't think it is generally taught that way elsewhere. But the

Well, I wouldn't know for sure, but I haven't seen it differently yet (yes, I know, anecdotal). I don't think it is generally taught that way elsewhere. But the main intention of my post is to find out, so your data point is welcome. :) There are some corpora of handwritten digits (for OCR training) lying around the net, I guess I should check those to be sure.