I was quite surprised when I learned in 2010 when I went to high school in the US that the US 7 is more like a 1 and the 1 is just an capital i or non capital L
For reference why the number look the way they look 
https://images.app.goo.gl/nBFmdZtSNvpSCqEi8
must be because i’m dutch(?) but to me those are very clearly 7’s and 8’s. i don’t understand how anyone can think that’s a 2.
It’s because they look like two separte drawn circles.
The 8 here look like they have a really big ‘belly’.
That’s really interesting!
Maybe because the Dutch are the only ones I know which learn to write an 8 like this. A little resarch let me find this:
And when executed sloppily Dutch 8s look more than hieroglyphics than anything else.
Edit: And people from Indonesia do it as well. But that might be a remnant of the Dutch East Indies.
Yeah, exactly. You can see the motion they’re using to write them, but it’s not a way I’ve seen it done before. Mostly I’ve seen people write it like on the right of your image or like a snowman, two ovals stacked on top of each other.
Edit: I do know how to spell.
now you put them together like that i understand the difference yes. funny, i never noticed before. now i wonder if people are having a hard time figuring out my id codes. i never got any complaints though. hmm.
These fours give me trouble. They can’t really be anything but fours, but even knowing what they are I can’t read them as fours.
Reading this thread I am realizing that being a math teacher in both Germany and the US has made me really good at reading handwritten numbers.
For reference, in the past eight years, I have completely shifted to writing my ones as just a tick mark and sevens with a bar.
This only leading to problems when teaching absolute value …
I’m Canadian and I do that too, only because I have terrible handwriting so it’s easier for other people to read 
Yknow I don’t remember why but I start my 8 in the middle.
And I write 9 from the bottom?
I had a good laugh at your struggles @SailingBy 
I have to admit I would have thought those 8s were zeroes.
I really feel paranoid about my numbers because I write in block letters. So I don’t want my zero to be mistaken for O, or my one to be mistaken for I. Or 1 for 7.
A few days ago I got NL-4781828 and as I read the 8 I remembered this thread
I find these 8s so fascinating! Good thing you had the 2 for reference
This way to write an 8 seems to be very common in the Netherlands. I received a couple of Dutch cards with these. I was a little confused the first time but luckily have an 8 in my postal code for reference. Now I know that it’s an 8 
I live in house number 31 and once a letter to house number 37 was delivered here by mistake. That 7 looked like in your picture.
I got an ID with a number which looks more like ‘h’. In fact it was a 4 - but for me a upsidedown 4.
same for me, I love this topic. It’s just fascinating
I would guess 1442241
Thanks for the quick response! (And you were right, I was able to register the card 
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