zero and oh!

[expat]

Just found myself writing a zero as ∅, again. Does anyone else still do that, or am I a dinosaur?

[Batcher]

I still do it when I use a pen & paper (which isn't very often nowadays).

[Ticktock]

I do it, for clarity.

[TheCoconutDog]

zero and oh!

Just found myself writing a zero as ∅, again. Does anyone else still do that, or am I a dinosaur?

I do that but the stroke is more of a backslash because I is a southpaw.

[MercladUK]

yep I do that and occasionally when writing I put a - through a 7

[TykeMerc]

Just found myself writing a zero as ∅, again. Does anyone else still do that, or am I a dinosaur?

Nope I still do it too so you're far from a solo dinosaur in that respect

[SlipTheJab]

yep I do that and occasionally when writing I put a - through a 7

+1 both zeros and sevens get that treatment from me.

[TheCoconutDog]

+1472

[TykeMerc]

+1 both zeros and sevens get that treatment from me.

Sevens always have with me, but that's how I was taught to do them as a small child, one of my nursery teachers was French. I think I picked up the zero habit about the time of my A levels, bit long ago, I don't find it easy to remember that far back

[NickFitz]

I do