The top left hand loop of the gallows characters is a 4. Who disagrees?

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Mark Knowles: Looking like and geometry are the same thing.

No, they are not.

"Looking like" is subjective (at least it is the way you asked it in your title and your initial posts). It has a strong component of human perception and judgment.

Optical illusions demonstrate this. Colors can be misread, motion can appear from static lines. In geometry, the diagram on the left has a contrasting figure in the middle. To some people looking at it, it does not. Most people looking at the figures on the right think the center dots appear to be different sizes, but in geometry they are not:

                                                        



Geometry is not the same as "looking like". Geometry is a mathematical discipline related to shapes and their arrangement. What something looks like can be mathematically defined but there's no certainty that the results will equate to the opinions of individuals.


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It might be more productive to start a new thread on the relative geometry of VMS glyph shapes instead of asking our opinion of whether we think the left side of t looks like a 4 (which you originally mentioned in the context of scripts even though you later recanted and said you don't want us to evaluate it in the context of scripts). Maybe that way you will get more targeted answers.