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[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I switched to the middle one because I couldn’t tell my sevens from my ones πŸ˜…

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Does no one write their 1 as a simple line down?

[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1 do, buy sometimes it can be important to make sure you mean I and not 1 (and definitely not l) if you're writing a code of some kind.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

BOO... Γ— IOO + BS

I do, but then it's too easy to confuse with absolute value. Beats confusing it with 7 though

[–] ridethisbike@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm sure some do. But not everyone does. This helps avoid the confusion.

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only when writing binary or truth tables.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I do, but dependent upon context. If there is no risk of confusion with a capital I or lower-case l (though I tend to write the latter with a slight rightward curve at the bottom), then yeah, it’s just a basic vertical line.

This is a thousand percent more than I thought I’d ever write about my penmanship. Welp.

[–] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I make my underline too wide which makes it unsuitable for anything but 1 by itself :(

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

But why not cross the seven instead?

My underlined 1s look like my 2s when I write with a marker. It's a problem I didn't antisipate that arose when I was trying to distinguish my 1s from my Is and ls.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

But they're not phasors.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago

Same here πŸ˜„