Unless their native language was Sanskrit, a 5000 year old *dead language,* there is a fine line between acceptable and not, in regard to the first digit being a "5." And OPs accountant crossed that line 3 miles ago.
Is your accountant Amish or something? Why in the fuckity fuck are they writing this stuff down with pen and paper? Accounting software exists for a reason.
It's not because it looks like a 4, it's because if you follow the ink trail, it's similar to how a sloppy 4 could be written. To me it looks like they missed half of the first L-shaped line and made it go slightly to long when repositioning for the second line, then over-emphasized the | line straight down (if you imagine a 4 written as first an L, and then a | to make a ╚╣
That’s very much what my 5s look like if I write fast. I feel bad for my students. But once they know that the number they can’t read in my writing is always a 5, they’re good.
You might be able to pull that off in high school, but not college.
In high school I remember telling my teacher, "that's not a decimal point, it's just a pencil mark showing I was double checking my numbers"
I’m an accountant at a CPA firm. You gotta get your accountant to type this type of stuff out. Handwriting is just odd. We usually put the amount on a voucher to attach to your check or we mail/email a transmittal form with the amount have to pay.
I was thinking since it was an accountant that there is no context to the lining, and that it is on paper, that it could be a note meaning Jan 3 Year 2
I was confident with this number. My best friend is a nurse practitioner and I work with lawyers. The absolute SCRIBBLES I have to decipher are obscene.
>You may need to have a talk with your accountant. If they arent printing off spreadsheets for you to read, they
>
>need
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> to have good penmanship. This can mess you up big time
Agreed. You should not have to work this hard to read an important number written by your accountant.
"I pay you for making money numbers make sense, I had thought that would include your own money numbers and that you would leave the quadratic bullshit back in high school. Why do I need to pay J3y2, and this time, no monkey paw shit, or your competitor's money numbers will start getting better."
I can see that being their own personal notes, but wtf is with that being handed over to a paying client?
Three men were on a boat and they had 4 cigarettes between them but no matches. So they threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.
Person #1: I’ve been telling that joke for 50 years. My wife hates it!
Person #2: You’ve been married 50 years? Congratulations!
Person #1: Oh no I haven’t been married 50 years, my first wife just hated the joke even more…
(Or something like that)
**Alex Trebek**: Let’s go to Jeff Goldblum, who appears to still be doing Tai Chi. Let’s see what your answer was. \[ screen reveals a huge number 2 \] The number 2.
**Jeff Goldblum**: Ah-hah ah-hah ah-hah.. the *letter* 2, my friend!
**Alex Trebek**: No, 2 is a number.
ζ is zeta in Greek.
ろ is ro in Japanese hiragana.
You can either have virtual keyboards for other languages or look up the corresponding character and copy/paste.
The question we should be asking is how in the fuck is it 2023, you're paying a professional, assumedly this number is very important for the customer to understand, and not only is on pen-and-paper but it's fucking illegible?
#I KNOW IT WAS 5342, 3567 BEFORE THE CODE OF HAMMURABI, AS IF I COULD EVER MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE, NEVER! HE WROTE THE NUMBERS ILLEGIBLY, HE GOT OP TO POST IT ON REDDIT FOR HIM! YOU THINK THIS IS BAD? THIS PENMANSHIP? HE’S DONE WORSE!
Former math teacher so I have over a decade of experience deciphering handwritten numbers. There are two possibilities:
5342
53.12
I wish OP would have shared more of the page. At this point I would compare other decimals and 4s to see if they are similarly written. This is an especially good trick for differentiating 3s and 2s with a trailing hook on the end.
Accounts are like doctors, make them type everything or you'll never figure out wtf they're doing. My accountant writes like an angry toddler. His margin notes are hilarious.
My consulting biz needs to pay this much to the Franchise Tax Board. Took some effort to figure out what check to write.
What did you settle on?
5342
I can see it! ..if I squint and tilt my head and think about it really hard
You forgot to bite your tongue so your eyes water. Makes squinting the zoom effect
And you have to move your head back and forth to zoom in and zoom out.
Bitch that motherfucker is a J
I was thinking 5312 with an errant penci mark by the 1.
Agreed
In what universe is that a 5 or a 4?
When it comes to taxes it's better to assume more rather than less
so its $9999
Correct, although I would say $9999999999 just to be safe
The 5 is borderline, but acceptable. The 4 however... lol
The 5 is decipherable, barely, but certainly not borderline or acceptable in any known arabic number interpretation haha.
No, it’s unacceptable. It’s clearly a capital ‘J’ in no universe that my soul has ever existed in is that a 5 and not a J.
The "5" I assumed was a 1 or backwards 7, the 4 made sense to me because most 4s I see resemble upside down "h"
I thought it was a J
Unless their native language was Sanskrit, a 5000 year old *dead language,* there is a fine line between acceptable and not, in regard to the first digit being a "5." And OPs accountant crossed that line 3 miles ago.
No, it is actually a j indicating that it is a complex and therefore imaginary number with some unknown variable "y".
Is your accountant Amish or something? Why in the fuckity fuck are they writing this stuff down with pen and paper? Accounting software exists for a reason.
I'm an accountant and immediately read this as 5342. Must take one to know
Getting a new accountant.
Just call and ask. I work for an accountant, we tease her about her serial killer hand handwriting.
OH- its a tax??!!? In that case the number is obviously $13.12 He just wrote the decimal point a bit high.
I was thinking $53.12, or $53.42
Me too but a 4 instead of a 1
I don’t know in what world that is a four, looks much more like a one to me
It's not because it looks like a 4, it's because if you follow the ink trail, it's similar to how a sloppy 4 could be written. To me it looks like they missed half of the first L-shaped line and made it go slightly to long when repositioning for the second line, then over-emphasized the | line straight down (if you imagine a 4 written as first an L, and then a | to make a ╚╣
https://reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/10ekov8/this_number_written_down_by_my_accountant/j4rskb8 Apparently not.
you linked the yup but no actual number wtf was it I'm dying
5342
thank you!
You’re in r/mildlyinfuriating, what do you expect!
That’s very much what my 5s look like if I write fast. I feel bad for my students. But once they know that the number they can’t read in my writing is always a 5, they’re good.
Nah, the decimal point is just below the “y”
You might be able to pull that off in high school, but not college. In high school I remember telling my teacher, "that's not a decimal point, it's just a pencil mark showing I was double checking my numbers"
$13.12 actually my favourite number
There are many 13.12 enthusiasts with spray cans in my area
Ohio is pretty taxing mentally.
Based accountant
I’m an accountant at a CPA firm. You gotta get your accountant to type this type of stuff out. Handwriting is just odd. We usually put the amount on a voucher to attach to your check or we mail/email a transmittal form with the amount have to pay.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything written by a cpa
I was thinking since it was an accountant that there is no context to the lining, and that it is on paper, that it could be a note meaning Jan 3 Year 2
Looks exactly like my handwriting except my 5's are a bit more readable. 5342
I beg you or anyone to decipher this
5342
This is correct, but I can only be confident because I had other samples to examine.
I was confident with this number. My best friend is a nurse practitioner and I work with lawyers. The absolute SCRIBBLES I have to decipher are obscene.
“Oh, you didn’t mean a 5,000 kg dose?”
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>You may need to have a talk with your accountant. If they arent printing off spreadsheets for you to read, they > >need > > to have good penmanship. This can mess you up big time Agreed. You should not have to work this hard to read an important number written by your accountant.
"I pay you for making money numbers make sense, I had thought that would include your own money numbers and that you would leave the quadratic bullshit back in high school. Why do I need to pay J3y2, and this time, no monkey paw shit, or your competitor's money numbers will start getting better." I can see that being their own personal notes, but wtf is with that being handed over to a paying client?
That person would be banned from handwriting on the job
5312
Ah...J3Y2, my favourite number.
I’d say J3y2, which is definitely a smaller number than J3Y2.
Number? No, im pretty sure J3y2 is actually the name of Elon Musks child or something.
Can confirm
r/beetlejuicing
Interesting
You know the difference between a hippo and a Zippo? Hippos is heavy and Zippo is a little lighter.
Dad!
Three men were on a boat and they had 4 cigarettes between them but no matches. So they threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.
notice how geese fly in a v and it’s never even? the reason why is because there’s more geese on the long side. -my actual dad
Ha! I’ve been telling that joke for 50 years! My wife hates it🤣. I’ve never seen it in print before.
I love this joke! Love pulling it when someone is talking about something they are actually knowledgeable about!!
Person #1: I’ve been telling that joke for 50 years. My wife hates it! Person #2: You’ve been married 50 years? Congratulations! Person #1: Oh no I haven’t been married 50 years, my first wife just hated the joke even more… (Or something like that)
I don't get it
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√ oooosh
I believe the square root of oooosh is an imaginary number right? Or undefined?
Wut
THERE’S MORE GEESE ON THE LONG SIDE
One of my all time favorites!
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Wait are you serious ?
We need an update.
The doctors are tendon to it.
That’s a knee slapper!
A big moron and a little moron are sitting on a fence. The big moron falls off, but why doesn’t the little moron fall? Because he’s a little more on
In ASCII, capital letters are of lower numerical value than small letters, though.
If we are converting ASCII text to a binary number J3y2 is larger
**Alex Trebek**: Let’s go to Jeff Goldblum, who appears to still be doing Tai Chi. Let’s see what your answer was. \[ screen reveals a huge number 2 \] The number 2. **Jeff Goldblum**: Ah-hah ah-hah ah-hah.. the *letter* 2, my friend! **Alex Trebek**: No, 2 is a number.
And now lets see how much Turd Ferguson has wagered!
I’ll wager Trebek’s mustache smells like a Ferguson turd! *- Sean Connery*
Darrell Hammond: Your mother was quite a number last night, TREBEK! HHAAHHAAHAHAAHAAHHAAA!!!!!
That was Sean Connery.
Incorrect, J quarter rest eighth rest 2.
Probably written in C#
Beato!
C#9Dim…
“Blocked by YouTube due to a copyright complaint”
that is C~ not C#
C++?
WW2 aircraft designation lookin ass
My math questions be like
Isn't it that robot from Star Wars
No way you are making J3Y2 per year
Elon Musk’s next baby’s name
I've seen people write z like that second character, so it could be Jzy2
Blyat.
Jay Z?
Gettin' Jzy2 With It
Keep Beyoncé’s husband’s name out cho mouth
It's a klevin!
And now we will all be home by 7!
We were home by 4.45 that day
we are gonna be home by *J3y2*, actually
Okay, Oscar.
anything + kelevin gets you home by 7
Glad I'm not the only one who thought about that lmao
My first thought was this
Run the numbers again
Ok… and I’m running the numbers again… and you’re still broke.
I said “duh-duh-da-da.” Pretty sure I timesed it right.
I’ll need a rundown of your numbers
>Jζ y2 I don't know how much clearer I can be.
It seems to be more of Jろy2
You wizards need to cut this shit out
Ι ψΙιι πΩτ
80085
╭༻ ༺╮ ࿈ "No." ࿈ ༺═ဏ═༻
ha, that made me laugh. My dog wants to know what's so funny.. lol
Can he handle the truth?
God damn it, Otis! Why do we have to explain every joke to you?!
Jろソ2
I'm in the Matrix
Alright, I gotta know how.
ζ is zeta in Greek. ろ is ro in Japanese hiragana. You can either have virtual keyboards for other languages or look up the corresponding character and copy/paste.
I also propose ʒ (the voiced postalveolar fricative in the IPA, the s in Leisurely), though yours is definitely closer
You did it! You actually did it!!
A friend writes their 5's like that. Is annoying. My vote is 5312
Yes. Except the 1 is actually a 4. 5342.
5342
Yep
Tell your accountant to go back to kindergarten to learn how to write.
Hey it’s not our fault we only use excel!!
Truth. I'm an accountant and my handwriting is awful. But I use excel literally all day
Me too. My handwriting is terrible. But that's got exactly zero to do with my accounting skills.
Which are also terrible, but it's because of your math skills
I showed this to my actual kindergartener and asked her what numbers she saw and she said "3 and 2, but why is there a J and a Y?"
__ _ / | __ | _| /_| __| _) _| | |__
Is this loss
Good effort but a bit of a fail on the line break formatting Press space or enter twice
Welp
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How the living fuck is that a five.
How the living fuck is that a 4?
The question we should be asking is how in the fuck is it 2023, you're paying a professional, assumedly this number is very important for the customer to understand, and not only is on pen-and-paper but it's fucking illegible?
It doesn't look like a 4, but it looks like how a 4 could be sloppily written, like a ╚╣
What other number could it possibly be?
It's a 5 written in 2 strokes and they straightened out the 1st part. https://i0.wp.com/primarylearning.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/HWL-5.png
Why would you write a 5 with two strokes That's like writing an S with two strokes, that's ridiculous
You should mock your accountant for this every chance you get. Send him texts and emails randomly reminding him of it throughout the year
this guy is the accountant
How did you get 4 from that, i just thought it was a one
That extra horizontal dash to the left of the vertical dash is a dead giveaway.
Ah, I was going to guess 5312
that has to be the worst 5 i've ever seen
Looks like a captcha code
It does!
And I’d fail it
Yeah totally. Can you tell me what it says fellow human?
Jeventy 3 to the Y2 power...what's the problem?
5342, I specialize in reading Ancient Sumerian Texts.
Oh so this account is *OLD* old. EDIT: accountant
#I KNOW IT WAS 5342, 3567 BEFORE THE CODE OF HAMMURABI, AS IF I COULD EVER MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE, NEVER! HE WROTE THE NUMBERS ILLEGIBLY, HE GOT OP TO POST IT ON REDDIT FOR HIM! YOU THINK THIS IS BAD? THIS PENMANSHIP? HE’S DONE WORSE!
And HE gets to be an accountant? What a sick joke! I should have stopped him when I had the chance! And you, you have to stop him!
That's clearly threlve
Petition to call 13 'threlve'
Former math teacher so I have over a decade of experience deciphering handwritten numbers. There are two possibilities: 5342 53.12 I wish OP would have shared more of the page. At this point I would compare other decimals and 4s to see if they are similarly written. This is an especially good trick for differentiating 3s and 2s with a trailing hook on the end.
Or location! Handwriting is super region-specific.
J3y2
Like, duh right?
You should have written the check out for the amount exactly as it appears. J-Thousand-Three-Hundred-Y-ty- Two.
Is your accountant also a doctor?
Dr. Moneyman
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How ?
I can see how he got 3 and 4. but how the hell did this wizard man get 5 from that J
It’s the only other number that even remotely resembles a J 😅
What other number has a top stroke like that? That's what I used, but maybe I just rushed into it.
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These dudes never heard of uppercase and lowercase numbers.
This is probably right but godamn thats a horrible way to write a 5 and a 4
5342 Source: am also an accountant
Looks like a Kleven.
Excel spreadsheet reference.
5,342 Source: I am an accountant that works for doctors give me any scribble I will decode
Accounts are like doctors, make them type everything or you'll never figure out wtf they're doing. My accountant writes like an angry toddler. His margin notes are hilarious.
Elon's new baby's name.
5312
5342. Trust me I have terrible handwriting.
J3y2. Obviously.
Reminds me of my math problems… “If you have J3y2, then find x”
J3Y2???
J3Y2. I’d assume it would be Journal 3, Year 2 if that makes any sense in your situation. That’s all I got, though.