• PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    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)?

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      1 year ago

      Why would I put in the extra effort?

      Distinguishes it better from 1. 1 and 7 can look pretty similar

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        I think the argument is that if you write a 1 with a line at the bottom it is easy to confuse it with a sloppily written 7, whose bar moved down a bit.

        Which invalidates the argument of the user above. (If not inverse it - a lot more numbers in life start with a 1 than with a 7)

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            1 year ago

            Me neither, but I also don’t read a lot of handwriting from other parts of the world. But I have heard that some places teach the 1 with a horizontal bar and the 7 without one.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        @metaStatic I have found that the fastest way to parse long passwords eg software keys is if you underline all numbers as you write them down.

      • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        Now do you misread a 7? Maybe as a T if you have particularly bad handwriting, but I can’t say I’ve ever had that issue

        O and 0, on the other hand… tell me why strikethrough zero isn’t standard in text format yet

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      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.