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Number 4 - Now we get another practice try at that straight stroke, which was the basis
of the "1." And, I'm going to show you a couple of possibilities for the sequence of strokes
for the "4." But we know that the "4" starts with the straight stroke, like so. Then, we
make a sweeping stroke to the left and then a cross stroke. Now, some people like to start
the "4" this way -- one, two, three. So, either way we have a straight spine, we have a sail,
and we have a horizontal stroke. Now, if we analyze where these strokes fall, we're going
to say that the "4" is not equally divided. In other words, the sail of the "4" doesn't
break at the midpoint of the height. So, we want to experiment a little bit with the width
of the sail and the place where the sail crosses. So, lots of room for practicing with the letter
"4", the number "4."