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Comment by wolverine876

3 years ago

Why the alternative version of "7"? The alternative zeroes are useful because zero looks like capital O, but with what would I confuse a "7"? Or is it there for another reason?

7 is similar to the italic 1, I guess. but also, the hand written version of 7 was taught to us, in Hungary, in the 1980s, with a small horizontal cross-line on the slanted stem of the 7. we quickly abandoned that small detail when writing, because we never saw that on printed material, though in writing 1 & 7 can be similar