*gathers all of the people in the world who write the number 7 with a little dash in the center of it so I can study them like little critters and find out what makes them do that*
There’s actually a lot of history regarding the development writing systems and why there are different visual representations of numerals,
but the short answer is: it’s regional, and you probably picked up how to make your numbers look based on your parents or your primary school teachers
I do it out of spite because in grade school a kids detective story identified the culprit by saying NO American wrote their sevens with a line and I thought that was super flimsy evidence and it made me so mad I started putting a line through my sevens so the fictional detective would be wrong and then kept doing it for several decades since.
I do feel one can’t underestimate the “elementary school child taught themselves how to do this Out Of Spite” crowd
I started as a conscious choice at 25 when I was a math tutor and realized my 2s and 7s looked the same most of the time
Your reason is better though
I just kinda started doing it so that they wouldn’t look like 1s, which I didn’t think looked very nice as just a stick. I also put the entire upper hook thing on the lowercase letter a purely for the vibes so who knows with me.
“Try our ai-powered-” and I’ve stopped reading. You’ve instantly lost me. I don’t trust anything that labels itself ai-powered. I’d rather deal with something that’s squirrel-powered. Like Norm. I trust Norm. He won’t try to sell my data.
my mother is playing pikmin and yelling at them in the exact tone of voice she uses for me and my siblings so we go into fight or flight every time. we thought initially that this meant she regarded the pikmin as akin to her children, but I now fear she’s always viewed us as pikmin
everything is truly so terrible but i just remembered doreen ketchens playing clarinet for her infant grandson and then i was kind of okay again for 36 seconds
