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Re:New Kind of Paper by zozbot234 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:01AM (#27602359)
You don't write letter x in handwriting. You always write cursive/italic x that cleanly solves the ambiguity with × sign. Similarly, "l" is handwritten and | is "broken" in the center.
Re:New Kind of Paper by mlajtos on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:39AM (#27602580)
Even though I am not German, I am aiming for Grundschrift [0] with letters and numbers since it is a close match for how I am writing. The broken pipe makes sense though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundschrift

Re:New Kind of Paper by tsimionescu on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:18AM (#27602804)
In my handwriting, I always write x as the typed letter. The cursive variant feels very awkward for me. In my country, after primary school, we always use a dot for multiplication (or,in maths with single-letter identifiers, no symbol at all - a multiplied by b is 'ab').