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>I've never encountered a 1 that looks like 7 in handwriting. [...] In what style of handwriting is 1 similar to 7? I'd imagine the top bar on 7 is a sufficient
by jasode 2y ago
>I've never encountered a 1 that looks like 7 in handwriting. [...] In what style of handwriting is 1 similar to 7? I'd imagine the top bar on 7 is a sufficient differentiator.
Here's a deep link to someone in Germany writing down what visually looks like "77.5 :7:7" but his narration says it's actually "11.5 :1:1"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT9je5yo7yM&t=30m44s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT9je5yo7yM&t=30m44s
- seszett 2y agoThis just looks like obviously 11.5 :1:1 to me, the slant would be totally wrong for 7s. I had to check back your comment to be sure you were really talking about these 1s as looking like 7s :) But this thread reminds me of when I lived in Canada for a while (coming from France) and I did misread numbers very often, which was totally unexpected to me. Yes, 7s and 1s looks very different between Canada (and the US I guess) and France (and probably the rest of Europe). I haven't had this problem with Belgium though I'm not surprised if the standard here had been chosen to be the same as in France.
- hombre_fatal 2y agoThey might be obvious ones in the context of this one person. But they are trivially not obvious next to someone who writes one like "|" and then seven is just "|" with any sort of hat. Your slant heuristic immediately fails.
- seszett 2y agoIt's "obvious" because 7 is always slanted here. But I know it's not the case in North America and I have a good experience on how numbers can be misinterpreted, as I said. I was just saying it was obvious to me and it even takes effort to see how they could be misinterpreted. But I know they can be.