does anyone know what the sevens with a line through them are called?

Question

old world 7?
old time 7?

I NEED TO KNOW!!!

Answer 1

It's just a different way of writing Seven.
It's the English way, I think. It's like color versus colour. Just a different way of doing it.

Answer 2

In America, people understand if you call it "European".
I did it like that for years, then I read that OCR doesn't like it, and my kids were learning (though my daughter picked it up) so I broke the habit. It took a day of writing lots of numbers. I never draw a 1 sans-serif -- either a single stroke or a hook on top and a base on the bottom; and my 7s tend to have a little hook at the left.

I do cross my Zs so they're not confused with 2s, sometimes my numeral 0s so they're not confused with letter Os.

Some people write their capital F like a cursive F which looks a little like a European 7.

Answer 3

A long time ago, 7's started looking like 1's. The cross mark was used to distinguish the two numbers.

I think it used to be done for luck. Something about Jesus and the cross and 7 being a lucky number. I don't know what it is called.

Answer 4

Well, I think it would be bad to call in old world or old time because it is still in use in Catholic schools, Europe, Australia, Taiwan, and physical science and mathematical communities. The crossbar is used to distinguish 7's from 1's (In those places, ones are written with long upward slanting beginning strokes).

Answer 5

I would call them "European" sevens, except that's how I make them, and I'm from Chicago, IL, USA! It (the slash) is done to keep the seven from being confused with the numeral one. In the same way, some people/type fonts have a slash through zero (zed) to keep it from being confused with the upper case letter "O"

Answer 6

It's generally a Germanic trait, however, I do know some who aren't of German origin who use it as a means of showing a difference between 1 and 7 (When I write, I slash through my zero from upper right to lower left to differentiate between "o" and "0").

Answer 7

It is the Continental European way of denoting it. . . .not English way. A horizontal slash qualifies it as a seven and not a 1 written in a hurry.

Answer 8

Seven.
I started crossing both my 7's & z's in algerbra because my handwriting was so sloppy it was the only way for me to differentiate them from 1's ans 2's, repectively.

Answer 9

European 7.

Answer 10

It is the militarian way of a "7".