How do you draw your lower-case sigma? (2 Viewers)

[Carrotsticks]

Not the one used for summation, but the one that's used for Standard Deviation.

Looks like this: σ

I'm asking because although I can write it out fairly neatly, it usually takes a while compared to other symbols.

Usually, I write my O's starting from the top, and going in an anti-clockwise direction.

However for my lower-case sigmas, I start from the top, go in a clockwise direction till I reach the original point, then stop my pen for a brief moment, then I draw the little horizontal tail.

If I don't pause and jump directly to the tail, then it ends up wonky and looking like a 6.

 

[deswa1]

I never use standard deviation but when I write in Greek and use it, I do it like this:

Start at the top of the circle and then draw the circle anticlockwise and then when you get back to where you started, just draw the line as well.

 

[Absolutezero]

 

[Carrotsticks]

My poor eyes.

EDIT: Actually I can't talk. Just had a go myself with it on MS Paint and it looked horrendous.

 

[Absolutezero]

My poor eyes.

EDIT: Actually I can't talk. Just had a go myself with it on MS Paint and it looked horrendous.

Yeah, paint's pretty shocking for quick free hand drawing. I had a better looking one, but it was harder to see the direction of the line. This one was clearer.

 

[math man]

my sigmas vary depending on context, 1. if i take time 2. std sigma 3. exam sigma

 

[Carrotsticks]

Jesus Christ.

 

[Shadowdude]

Didn't we have one of these threads before?

Anyway, I draw it like an 'o', clockwise, but then just keep going horizontally after I finish the 'o' so I get something that looks like: σ


My stats lecturer makes it look like an upside down balloon... or, a sperm (it's my guess on why people started bursting out laughing when he wrote it on the board the first time).

 

[SpiralFlex]

I imagine Lleyton hewitt as the circle and the line aligned to the right a bit his cap.