Hoefler Text, a contemporary font, uses these "old-style" numerals.
The numerals used by Western countries have two forms: lining ("in-line" or "full-height") figures as seen on a typewriter and taught in North America, and old-style figures, in which numerals 0, 1 and 2 are at x-height; numerals 6 and 8 have bowls within x-height, and ascenders; numerals 3, 5, 7 and 9 have descenders from x-height; and the numeral 4 rests along the baseline. Lining figures are generally designed all the same setting width, as this makes the printing of mathematical and trigonometrical tables simpler to do and clearer to read. Non-lining figures tend to be preferred where numbers occur within sentences, for instance when a date is given in figures in a line of text.
British presses have been partial to "old-style" numerals,[citation needed] even though typewriters cannot print them and they are not assigned separate Unicode values. The old-style numeral one can resemble a capital "I" reduced to x-height, and this can lead to confusion e.g. of the number 11 (when written in old-style digits) with the Roman numeral II (meaning the number two). On the other hand, with some sans serif faces, using lining figures, there can be confusion between the figure 1, lower case l (L) and upper case I (I).
A distinction exists between the Danish/Norwegian letter "Ø," the Latin letter "O," and the numeral "0".[1] Handwritten data to be typed into a computer necessitates having a distinction between the letter "O" and numeral "0". In English-speaking countries, zero was often slashed in technical writing, and was used in many computer keyboards, screens and printing methods. Some early computerized systems for managers assumed that the numeral would be entered more often than the letter, so they slashed the letter instead. In time this became a minority practice, and it is very confusing for Danish and Norwegian speaking people.
There are three ways of ticking the numeral zero to make it distinct from the letters O and Ø. A tick in the upper right corner derives from the earlier practice, a tick in the upper left corner is used to prevent confusion with all earlier practices, and the very-low-resolution typeface "Fixedsys" has an internal tick, that does not extend beyond the bowl, in both the upper right and lower left. This is the most elegant, but it would take quite a flourish to write it on hundreds of inventory tags. Scandinavian countries prefer a numeral zero with a dot in the middle, although low-resolution displays can confuse this with a numeral eight, and it takes longer to assuredly make a dot with a ballpoint pen than making a tick.
The "Crossed Seven" is commonly used throughout Europe, but, outside of mathematics, is sporadically used in the United States, and it is not permitted to be written on some inventory tags that are optically read by computers.[citation needed]
There are two forms of the numeral one used in France, as seen on Citroën cowls:
numeral one with a long initial stroke and an underserif; and
numeral one with a long initial stroke that starts below the underserif and is concave upward.
Central Europe uses a 'one' that has two half-serifs so it looks somewhat like a 'Z'. The region further uses a numeral four that looks like a lightning bolt, and in some areas of Eastern Europe, as seen on Romanian tanks, there is a numeral four that does not have a closed loop, but has a Greek cross form of strokes. Usually the numeral two is not slashed, whereas the letter Z is, because the handwritten form could be confused with the numeral two.
arabic, numeral, variations, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Arabic numeral variations news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2008 Learn how and when to remove this message There are various stylistic and typographic variations to the Arabic numeral system Contents 1 Old style numerals 2 Slashed zero 3 Other variations 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksOld style numerals editMain article Text figures nbsp Hoefler Text a contemporary font uses these old style numerals The numerals used by Western countries have two forms lining in line or full height figures as seen on a typewriter and taught in North America and old style figures in which numerals 0 1 and 2 are at x height numerals 6 and 8 have bowls within x height and ascenders numerals 3 5 7 and 9 have descenders from x height and the numeral 4 rests along the baseline Lining figures are generally designed all the same setting width as this makes the printing of mathematical and trigonometrical tables simpler to do and clearer to read Non lining figures tend to be preferred where numbers occur within sentences for instance when a date is given in figures in a line of text British presses have been partial to old style numerals citation needed even though typewriters cannot print them and they are not assigned separate Unicode values The old style numeral one can resemble a capital I reduced to x height and this can lead to confusion e g of the number 11 when written in old style digits with the Roman numeral II meaning the number two On the other hand with some sans serif faces using lining figures there can be confusion between the figure 1 lower case l L and upper case I I Slashed zero editMain article Slashed zero A distinction exists between the Danish Norwegian letter O the Latin letter O and the numeral 0 1 Handwritten data to be typed into a computer necessitates having a distinction between the letter O and numeral 0 In English speaking countries zero was often slashed in technical writing and was used in many computer keyboards screens and printing methods Some early computerized systems for managers assumed that the numeral would be entered more often than the letter so they slashed the letter instead In time this became a minority practice and it is very confusing for Danish and Norwegian speaking people There are three ways of ticking the numeral zero to make it distinct from the letters O and O A tick in the upper right corner derives from the earlier practice a tick in the upper left corner is used to prevent confusion with all earlier practices and the very low resolution typeface Fixedsys has an internal tick that does not extend beyond the bowl in both the upper right and lower left This is the most elegant but it would take quite a flourish to write it on hundreds of inventory tags Scandinavian countries prefer a numeral zero with a dot in the middle although low resolution displays can confuse this with a numeral eight and it takes longer to assuredly make a dot with a ballpoint pen than making a tick Other variations editMain articles 1 number As a digit and 7 number Evolution of the glyph nbsp The Crossed Seven is commonly used throughout Europe but outside of mathematics is sporadically used in the United States and it is not permitted to be written on some inventory tags that are optically read by computers citation needed There are two forms of the numeral one used in France as seen on Citroen cowls numeral one with a long initial stroke and an underserif and numeral one with a long initial stroke that starts below the underserif and is concave upward Central Europe uses a one that has two half serifs so it looks somewhat like a Z The region further uses a numeral four that looks like a lightning bolt and in some areas of Eastern Europe as seen on Romanian tanks there is a numeral four that does not have a closed loop but has a Greek cross form of strokes Usually the numeral two is not slashed whereas the letter Z is because the handwritten form could be confused with the numeral two See also editRegional handwriting variation Arabic numeralsReferences edit Cajori Florian 1928 1929 A History of Mathematical Notations Chicago Open Court Pub Co ISBN 0 486 67766 4 External links editAlternate figures Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Arabic numeral variations amp oldid 1165208263, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
