This is all very well but surely all mathematicians/engineers/scientists (n that) have considered this both for themselves and had it mentioned when being taught in relevant subjects, or simply noticed.
Who on earth screws up writing rho with a p? Yes, I know that someone will but they need to write the symbol properly.
Zed and two? RLY? (Crossing your Z is a Germanic thing for me, which is why I do it - I grew up in W Germany). Despite that, you would be in no doubt if I wrote a 2 or Z, because I know how to use a fucking pen and I am able to write.
To be fair, I come from an age where cursive means something!
We are heading into an era where being able to use a pen or pencil will border on arcane skills. Calligraphy isn't hard nor is ensuring you get your message across.
Cross your zeros but leave your Os alone (or dot them if you like - I do sometimes). Cross your zeds if you like. Write Greek letters as they should be - a lower case rho starts from the bottom right and is written in a single stroke - it never looks like a "p".
x (eks) is two curves and not a diagonal cross. Multiplication is . or adjacency of symbols, however it might be x depending on context.
The given advice is don't slash the zero. I disagree. Phi is fatter than tall - its not hard to be precise, which I would hope a mathematician might manage.
In the end can you write or not? If not, use a keyboard. Nothing wrong with that per se ...
I found your comment quite agressive, and a bit out of place.
I, for one, do have trouble getting others to read my handwriting (on boards mostly, on paper it's ok). I'm left-handed, and the system of traditional writing education you seem to value so much has left people like me unattended for most of recent history.
And it is not the kind of mentality that transpires from your comment that would have helped anything change as --thankfully-- it did.
> Zed and two? RLY? (Crossing your Z is a Germanic thing for me, which is why I do it - I grew up in W Germany).
Crossing z's was something I picked up naturally in the states in High School Algebra, for the reasons listed. It's not a matter of "can you write or not"—that a very weirdly dismissive line of argument—it's a matter of "how can you provide the most information redundancy so that when you're scribbling notes quickly you and others can decipher them later".
This advice in this article dates to 2007, so it's not a modern cope for the terrible handwriting of modern college kids like you seem to think.
> Who on earth screws up writing rho with a p? Yes, I know that someone will but they need to write the symbol properly.
That's literally the point of this piece: to provide help to people who are new to these symbols so they can both recognize the difference between them and write them distinctly.
Are you somehow under the impression that every just intuitively picks up the distinctions between these symbols?
Who on earth screws up writing rho with a p? Yes, I know that someone will but they need to write the symbol properly.
Zed and two? RLY? (Crossing your Z is a Germanic thing for me, which is why I do it - I grew up in W Germany). Despite that, you would be in no doubt if I wrote a 2 or Z, because I know how to use a fucking pen and I am able to write.
To be fair, I come from an age where cursive means something!
We are heading into an era where being able to use a pen or pencil will border on arcane skills. Calligraphy isn't hard nor is ensuring you get your message across.
Cross your zeros but leave your Os alone (or dot them if you like - I do sometimes). Cross your zeds if you like. Write Greek letters as they should be - a lower case rho starts from the bottom right and is written in a single stroke - it never looks like a "p".
x (eks) is two curves and not a diagonal cross. Multiplication is . or adjacency of symbols, however it might be x depending on context.
The given advice is don't slash the zero. I disagree. Phi is fatter than tall - its not hard to be precise, which I would hope a mathematician might manage.
In the end can you write or not? If not, use a keyboard. Nothing wrong with that per se ...