It depends on my intended ‘audience’. IOW, if I’m submitting numbers for work purposes, I always cross my 7’s just in case the person entering the stuff in a computer is unsure.
For my own reading, an uncrossed 7, an open 4 and I’ve never crossed an 0 in my whole life.
No slash on the 7, open top 4 and no slash on the 0.
I rarely print, so the Z isn’t crossed.
Crossed sevens and my 1s look like those in Courier font, with a bottom line and a diagonal coming from the top. Open 4s, of course. I cross my 0s since my first computer programming class, but only when the context may lead to confusion. Crossed Z.
I have a teens’ book (I don’t know how they’re called in English, but it’s a “Hitchcock Presents” thing where these three California boys solve misteries and, yes, they know Hitchcock and he appears sometimes) where one of the clues was that a 7 was crossed: they point out this is common in Europe and uncommon in the US. Remembering this, I check how people do it: none of my American coworkers crossed their 7s, European ones always do.
It’s “one of those little things,” like vinegar on your chicken or mayo on your fries…
I’ve been crossing my 7s and Zs since I was a pretentious high schooler.
I only crossed 7 for German class. The only people I know that did this are older German’s that emigrated here or people in German class.
I started crossing zeros for computer programing in the late 70’s. I don’t cross zeros unless I’m dealing with programing or something like serial numbers where it’s vital to get it right. I wish there was better distinction between the lowercase L and one. I almost always write a one with a base and line attached to the top and going left. I only used fonts that do this.
For me, seven is crossed, four is open, upper-case Z is crossed, zero is clear. My one is a straight line, I sometimes mistake an American hand-drawn 7 for a 1 though.
With for mw, because my ones look too much like sevens without the bar. I had to retrain myself to write seven with a bar and make my ones just a vertical line. Now I can’t go back even though my ones and sevens no longer look alike.:o
Okay, is there some reason that German class would be using a lot of 7’s? I can’t think of very many times where you would need to use numbers in a foreign language class. And why would they ask you to switch to using crossed 7’s for German class, anyway? It seems like half the people here who do it learned it in high school German.
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Crossed sevens, open fours. One is a straight line. Crossing the zero would just make it similar to the Norwegian letter “Ø” instead of being similar to an “O”, and in mathematics it would be similar to ∅ (empty set). My Zs are uncrossed, though seldom used in Norwegian anyway.
The purpose is to teach you how to speak and write German. You also get taught some of the culture so you know the context of phrase usage. Being able to date documents and read back math symbols is part of this.
Crossed sevens, closed fours, and what Tom P. said about Norwegian “Ø” goes for Danish as well.
Crossed 7s, open 4s, crossed zees.
I’ll only cross my zeros if it is not clear from the context if it is a zero or an oh. If I am writing a monetary figure or a quantity I don’t cross the zero. If I am writing a password, confirmation number, etc. then I cross zeros.
I do not cross anything except z’s when 2’s are in the same phrase. Open fours. I do not cross zeroes in math because a crossed 0 represents a nonexistant answer or a null vector.
Crossed 7s, open 4s, crossed Zs, because my Z looks like my 2.
I learned to cross my 7s from high school German.
When doing lots of number work (Engineering Undergraduate), crossed 7’s are easier to distinguish from 1’s. Closed 4’s just look better.
Occasionally cross my 0’s if it needs to be distinguished from a ‘o’ but mostly I leave it uncrossed so it doesn’t get confused for a phi, Φ (use that quite a lot).
I use the crossbar and make closed 4s. I used to use the bar under my 1s, a slash through the zero and carefully make my 8s out of two circles. A standard way of numbering things (even down to your writing style when numbering) was a requirement of my archaeology field school when I was in college. They required all the students to write numbers a certain way because it was easier to read them in the lab. Same for letters like Zs - they also had to have the crossbar to make sure they weren’t confused with the number 2.
I cross the 7’s and have an open 4
Exactly this.
I started crossing my sevens because one of my French teachers required it for all papers done for French class (don’t remember which teacher, but definitely before high school). As this was in the early 70s, there was always a seven in the date. I decided that instead of switching back and forth between the American and European seven, I’d use the European one all the time. No one ever complained until a boss I had in the early 80s. He was a partner in the CPA firm I worked for, and found them distracting and asked me not to do it. I agreed, but was secretly annoyed because I worked mostly for the other partner, who hadn’t complained. I left that job not too long after, and have crossed them full time ever since.
My fours are open at the top, and I use a small serif on my 1s most of the time. I also cross my Zs; I picked that up from my computer science major older brother in the late 70s, early 80s. I don’t cross my zeros as a rule, but do it occasionally.
Heathens.
uncrossed 7’s, crossed Z’s, open 4’s, crossed 0’s, figure 8’s instead of snowman 8’s, no serif on 1’s, and a flip-tail on lowecase q’s.
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