And the cursive form of uppercase Z also has a stroke to distinguish it from the cursive form of uppercase L... So this is not just for maths.
2016-11-25 16:05 GMT+01:00 "Jörg Knappen" <[email protected]>: > Some anecdotal evidence: > > I was taught by my math teacher (Germany, 1970s) to stroke all z's (upper > or lowercase) in order to > distinguish them from the digit "2" >

