Re: do some Americans write their 1's in this way ?

From	occam <occam@nowhere.nix>
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english
Subject	Re: do some Americans write their 1's in this way ?
Date	2022-11-04 11:00 +0100
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On 03/11/2022 17:17, Ken Blake wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 11:26:15 +0100, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/11/2022 18:21, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 9:52:06 AM UTC-6, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>>>> In article <cd80f306-7e2c-4bb5...@googlegroups.com>,
>>>> henh...@gmail.com <henh...@gmail.com> wrote: 
>>>>> do some Americans write their 1's in this way ? 
>>>>>
>>>>> https://i.redd.it/phpsw48kjfx91.jpg 
>>>>>
>>>>> The numerals look French to me.
>>>> I think many people who have lived in Europe will have picked up the 
>>>> habit of crossing sevens to keep them from being interpreted as ones 
>>>> -- and similarly z's and twos.
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I've never lived in Europe, but I always cross my z's (a habit that was
>>> necessary for me in math and physics) but not my 7's.
>>>
>>
>>
>> When I took my first programming course at university, in the days of
>> punch-cards and hand-written code, I was told to cross my zeros (with a
>> diagonal slash, Ø) in order to distinguish them from capital letter 'O's.
> 
> There were no computer courses in college when I was a student (I
> graduated in 1959) but I started programming professionally in 1962,
> and that's what we did in those days, unless it was the letter that we
> slashed; I can't remember for sure which it was.
> 

When you say "when I started programming professionally", who did you
work for?

01 START

02 IF Org=IBM, GOTO 05;  COMMENT- Take no further action. None of IBM
code worked properly anyway. That is why Microsoft thrived.

03 IF Org=not(IBM), GOTO 04;  COMMENT - Time to report your bugs to your
ex-employers

04 GOTO 06;

05 END


06 BUG REPORT Subroutine (A, B, C...) ;  COMMENT - Input A, B, C,...as
appropriate, for each organisation you worked for *after* IBM.



> 
> 
>> I remember writing a letter to my father soon after, with a number
>> including a 'Ø',  the way I had been taught.  My father's reaction was:
>> "Is that a zero, or a mistake that you tried to strike out?". (He was
>> writing a cheque for me, so it was important.)

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