Happy 7-8-9! - Page 5

> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:33:12 -0600, "Dawne Peterson"
>
>>
>> "Bruce Fletcher wrote
>>> Dawne Peterson wrote:
>>>>> --
>>>> That's the date in my world too--but it puts me in a definite minority,
>>>> along with putting a comma before "and" in a list of things and making a
>>>> line through the number 7.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, the Oxford comma...
>>> --
>> Yes. I have no explanation for why exactly, but at some point during my
>> four years at geek school, each of these became The Thing We Must Do.
>> Dawne
>>
>
> I have always crossed my sevens, I was told it was an 'accounting'
> thing to do so that 1s were never mistaken for 7s if written hastily.

>
>
>>On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:33:12 -0600, "Dawne Peterson"
>>>"Bruce Fletcher wrote
>>>>Dawne Peterson wrote:
>>>>>>--
>>>>>That's the date in my world too--but it puts me in a definite minority,
>>>>>along with putting a comma before "and" in a list of things and making a
>>>>>line through the number 7.
>>>>Ah, the Oxford comma...
>>>>--
>>>Yes. I have no explanation for why exactly, but at some point during my
>>>four years at geek school, each of these became The Thing We Must Do.
>>>Dawne
>>I have always crossed my sevens, I was told it was an 'accounting'
>>thing to do so that 1s were never mistaken for 7s if written hastily.
>
>
> I think the crossed 7 is a common engineering/science/math/programming
> thing. I also tend to slash 0s, and when writing things will do the little
> symbol for a blank space - kind of a small b with a slash thru it. Plus, I
> also slash Zs - which I'm sure is to avoid confusion with 2s.
>
> ellice
>

> ellice wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:33:12 -0600, "Dawne Peterson"
>>>
>>>
>>>> "Bruce Fletcher wrote
>>>>
>>>>> Dawne Peterson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's the date in my world too--but it puts me in a definite minority,
>>>>>> along with putting a comma before "and" in a list of things and making a
>>>>>> line through the number 7.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, the Oxford comma...
>>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Yes. I have no explanation for why exactly, but at some point during my
>>>> four years at geek school, each of these became The Thing We Must Do.
>>>> Dawne
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have always crossed my sevens, I was told it was an 'accounting'
>>> thing to do so that 1s were never mistaken for 7s if written hastily.
>>
>>
>> I think the crossed 7 is a common engineering/science/math/programming
>> thing. I also tend to slash 0s, and when writing things will do the little
>> symbol for a blank space - kind of a small b with a slash thru it. Plus, I
>> also slash Zs - which I'm sure is to avoid confusion with 2s.
>>
>> ellice
>>
>
> OTOH, I checked with my dh, who is a retired naval architect, trained in
> England in the days when they spent three months of their apprenticeship
> learning how to "letter" things. He has never, ever, crossed 4s or 7s
> or 0s. He is, however, still a very, very neat printer.
>
> I guess it all depends on where and when you were trained.
>
> Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

>> ellice wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:33:12 -0600, "Dawne Peterson"
>>>>> "Bruce Fletcher wrote
>>>>>> Dawne Peterson wrote:
>>>>>>>> But in the UK it won't be 7-8-9 for another month, today is 8-7-9
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> That's the date in my world too--but it puts me in a definite
>>>>>>> minority,
>>>>>>> along with putting a comma before "and" in a list of things and
>>>>>>> making a
>>>>>>> line through the number 7.
>>>>>> Ah, the Oxford comma...
>>>>>> --
>>>>> Yes. I have no explanation for why exactly, but at some point during
>>>>> my
>>>>> four years at geek school, each of these became The Thing We Must Do.
>>>>> Dawne
>>>> I have always crossed my sevens, I was told it was an 'accounting'
>>>> thing to do so that 1s were never mistaken for 7s if written hastily.
>>> I think the crossed 7 is a common engineering/science/math/programming
>>> thing. I also tend to slash 0s, and when writing things will do the
>>> little
>>> symbol for a blank space - kind of a small b with a slash thru it.
>>> Plus, I
>>> also slash Zs - which I'm sure is to avoid confusion with 2s.
>>> ellice
>> OTOH, I checked with my dh, who is a retired naval architect, trained in
>> England in the days when they spent three months of their apprenticeship
>> learning how to "letter" things. He has never, ever, crossed 4s or 7s
>> or 0s. He is, however, still a very, very neat printer.
>> I guess it all depends on where and when you were trained.
>> Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
> I'd venture to say that your DH is a fair amount older than me. The
> number
> crossing was more something that came with writing computer code. For
> drafting classes - not - except for some did slashed 0s - electrical code,
> symbols, etc. I'm just old enough to have been the absolute last class at
> my uni that had to do the full semester of drafting by hand, not CAD.
> And,
> indeed, can letter as either an architect, or an engineer - mostly
> depending
> on my mood.
> Ellice

>
>>
>>> ellice wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:33:12 -0600, "Dawne Peterson"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> "Bruce Fletcher wrote
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dawne Peterson wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> But in the UK it won't be 7-8-9 for another month, today is 8-7-9
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That's the date in my world too--but it puts me in a definite
>>>>>>>> minority,
>>>>>>>> along with putting a comma before "and" in a list of things and
>>>>>>>> making a
>>>>>>>> line through the number 7.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ah, the Oxford comma...
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes. I have no explanation for why exactly, but at some point during
>>>>>> my
>>>>>> four years at geek school, each of these became The Thing We Must Do.
>>>>>> Dawne
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have always crossed my sevens, I was told it was an 'accounting'
>>>>> thing to do so that 1s were never mistaken for 7s if written hastily.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think the crossed 7 is a common engineering/science/math/programming
>>>> thing. I also tend to slash 0s, and when writing things will do the
>>>> little
>>>> symbol for a blank space - kind of a small b with a slash thru it.
>>>> Plus, I
>>>> also slash Zs - which I'm sure is to avoid confusion with 2s.
>>>>
>>>> ellice
>>>>
>>>
>>> OTOH, I checked with my dh, who is a retired naval architect, trained in
>>> England in the days when they spent three months of their apprenticeship
>>> learning how to "letter" things. He has never, ever, crossed 4s or 7s
>>> or 0s. He is, however, still a very, very neat printer.
>>>
>>> I guess it all depends on where and when you were trained.
>>>
>>> Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
>>
>> I'd venture to say that your DH is a fair amount older than me. The
>> number
>> crossing was more something that came with writing computer code. For
>> drafting classes - not - except for some did slashed 0s - electrical code,
>> symbols, etc. I'm just old enough to have been the absolute last class at
>> my uni that had to do the full semester of drafting by hand, not CAD.
>> And,
>> indeed, can letter as either an architect, or an engineer - mostly
>> depending
>> on my mood.
>>
>> Ellice
>>
>
> Your probably right. My DDH was an electrical/engineer/designer/draftsmen
> and didn't use the slashes, except for the letter Z in his name. His
> handwriting was unintelligible and he printed everything as though he was
> doing a blue print.

> I remember well when he was asked to buy a CAD system for his place as an
> experiment and he came home with the 5" thick manuals to study at home,
> without a computer handy to try anything on. Within 3 months he was wowing
> the execs in his office with using it and was doing demos for people they
> were flying in from all over the country to see this miracle computer
> program.

> I don't think anyone, certainly not me, had ever seen a zero with slash
> through it before that. I'm wondering if that came in with computerized
> number systems?
>
> Lucille
>