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I had a quick look around here and google before, and didn't find any answer to this particular question, and it's beginning to really irritate me now, so I'm asking here:

How is one supposed to write l (little L), 1 (one) and | (pipe) so that they don't all look the same? One of my teachers draws them all as vertical lines and I have seen things like |l| written as 3 vertical lines.

I tried writing a cursive l, but they always look like e when I write them, which is a whole new problem.

So is there a "best way" to write all of these on paper, or a "least confusing" way?

Thanks in advance guys ^_^

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    Try to imitate $\ell \mid 1$ as closely as possible by hand :)2011-03-26
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    It is interesting how doing mathematics has changed my handwriting. I always used to confuse my "2" and my "z", so I started writing my 2's with a curl at lower-left and my z's with a strike-through. I usually writes my l's (as in "late") as Rahul above.2011-03-26
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    caligraphy.stackexchange.com ?2011-03-26

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