Yes. We're better than you.

I switched to the middle one because I couldn’t tell my sevens from my ones 😅
- Does no one write their 1 as a simple line down?
- Underline your danged ones.
- Same here 😄
You'll change your tune when your work forces you to regularly write nonsensical combinations of letters and numbers.
- ?
  The meme is specifically calling out why the seven slash exists. It's very possible to confuse the two with sloppy writing.

I want to upvote, but just can't do it.

Its everywhere dude!
Edit: that x is meant to be + but im as lazy as i am bad at math
- The trend continues (no I didn't have the patience to wait an extra hour)
- THE NUMBERS MASON! WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!
- 57 = 12 + 45
  Erase most of the 4 and you have 12 - 5 = 7
Why would I put in the extra effort? How much time have I saved by not adding in that extra line in my 40+years of life?
How much more will I save in the next 40+ (less, of course, since computers will be the main source of 7s, whereas most of my 7s in the first 40 were in my youth before computers were commonplace, and I hope I don't live that fucking long)?
- Why would I put in the extra effort?
  Distinguishes it better from 1. 1 and 7 can look pretty similar
- depends if you've ever written down a password and misread a seven then you've literally wasted more time by not doing it.
  though strike through zero is probably more important for that situation.
- ambiguity (even potential ambiguity) is a larger time waster
- 7
- Unless you have an actual need to write a lot of 7s in a row and then rush off and actually do something you otherwise wouldn't have been able to accomplish had you omitted them, you can't claim that as usefully saved time. The tiny fractions of time by themselves aren't enough to do anything on their own therefore the total amount of things you have accomplished in your life would be the same whether you added the lines or not.

Behold! The 7 I used back in middle school..

It's beautiful
I still use this one! Makes me feel like a fancy lad.
Maximum effect!
Me too. Then one day I thought about how it was just unnecessary extra steps and I stopped. I also used to do a fancy 1.
- Same dude. My 7s are so unfancy now.
I started using that back in middle school, too, but I never gave up.

I started slashing my 7s and 0s in university; it's just easier to distinguish them thanks to the abundance of Greek letters, symbols, and notations used in engineering. Also my bad printing was further marred by constantly nodding off while taking notes, so anything to improve clarity.

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Ya. Math and engineering totally ducked up my handwriting. I mean, it was already pretty bad. But all those other letters didn't help!
- ξ fucked me up a lot more than it probably should have...
I spent 10 years in research, slashing your 7's and 0's is absolutely required in data keeping. Every intern/tech I had got the handwriting lesson.
I also change how they wrote capital G after too many "is that a 6 or a G" moments.
- Absolutely G's and 2s!
All about slashing Z's
Exact same except I didn't go to college and it was 100% because I couldn't read my own writing well enough to distinguish without them.

You draw sevens with a small bar in the middle because it looks better.

I draw sevens with a small bar in the middle because I have the handwriting of a goblin and my ones and sevens often look similar otherwise

We are not the same

It's more about making it not mistakable for a 1.
- Yeah it's important for me because I have shit handwriting. I also draw zeroes with a bar in the middle because one of my college teachers used to subtract 1 point on tests for every zero with no bar.
  We all hated that but tbh I'm glad I have that good practice ingrained in my brain now because I can't accidentally mix up 0 and O
- Me drawing 1s with a bar under them 🧐
  Me when the 1 looks a lot like a 2 😔
I write French sevens because it pissed off all the managers at the IRS.

Doubly so if you're a le sir who Ø

empty set
I have strong feelings about this one because that is the only reasonable way to clearly distinguish numeral from letter
- Well, most of the time. There's this bastard: Ø.
  That's a letter, not a zero. Second-to-last letter in the Danish and Norwegian alphabets. We Swedes use Ö instead.
- what about putting a dot in the zero? like in monospace fonts?
  ʘ ← kinda like this but squished
𝟬̷

7

⌿̅

VII

0000 0111
- yk, the zeros are unnecessary. It's like 00007

I'm a fan. I slash my zeros, too.

How about your z?
- In some languages, z != ƶ = ż
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_with_stroke
- God has joined the match

7

Prof from Germany explained that 1 in Germany has a flag so 7 must have a slash. Seemed good enough of a compromise to slash all the 7s and give 1s flags and feet.

Same in Brazil for the 7 (but no feet on the 1). That's where I picked up the habit.

this is a dashed seven thread. we don’t take kindly to straight-topped threes. double-bubble eights are also not “one of us”, nor are angle-ticked ones (if you’re gonna tick a one you better give that tick a curve). slashed and dotted zeroes are ok, but naked zeroes are heresy. overly-hooked 6s and 9s make us feel uncomfortable. triangled fours are the worst, though.
- This is perfection
Exactly. This is why your stupid superfluous dashed sevens are heretical. Nobody should ever ask me if my 3 is a 7; what an absolutely absurd question.

Damnit....take my upvote

5th down is basically my numbers but I have a bar on my 7 and no base on my 1.

If one were truly ascended, one would write 七.

七 is for amateurs. 柒 is where it's at.
- It’s been a while for me but I’m guessing that’s the banking character for 七

Did Phineas got a piercing?

It's like it's wearing a bow-tie 🤵

That's just 7 with extra steps.

I write numbers like my favorite fonts do. ᛐ, not ᛁ. ４, not 丩. Something like ㇋/ℨ/Ჳ, not З. And 7, not 7̵.

I write "a" as shown here.
- Me too

I used to use the slash on 7s when I was in Jr high because it was legit and nobody did it.

But, like... Why? What purpose does it serve? It's not like the slash through a 0 to differentiate it from an O.

My 7s and 1s look too similar without it, to the point it was affecting my math grades. This was sixth grade. I've done it ever since
- We always were forced to use the foot on the 1 so I never even thought of that. 😮
In my country the slashed 7 became mandatory in the national curriculum in the 1930's. Our military strongly requested this in order to achieve better accuracy in artillery fire control - in those days every calculation was done by hand and mixing 1's and 7's could easily have deadly results.
This practice was quickly adopted by the whole population and it was a great success with no drawbacks. The slashed 7 makes it impossible to mix 1's and 7's, therefore it is the superior choice.

Of course we are better than Computers! Who the hell write seven as 7 anyway

This is the reason why ChatGPT keeps asking people where the nuclear codes are kept.

Shame that software always registered my dashed seven as a 1 because you can't lift the pen

The power of Serif vs Sans Serif.

The worst is I and l.

In Yurp, the top one is a 1.

I don't need to do that because my 7s are distinct from my 1s. That's right. I'm better than you.

You think your 7s are distinct from your ones.
I know that my 7s are distinct from my ones.
We are not the same.
- My 7s are distinct from my 1s because I write them like this: