Re: VMs: d's (8s) and ampersands (&) was; Nick's Strokes etc

[elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> > > Rene Rote;
> > >The hash and asterisk appear on telephone sets,
> > >which prompts the other trivia: why on earth are
> > >the number keys not in the same order on
> > >telephones and on calculators?????

To a certain extent, it does make sense:

When dialing a phone number, I kind of select an entry from a list, which would 
be sorted top to bottom, usually (ie smallest number on top), and the first 
entry would be "1" (rather than "0", for all you programmers out there).

When calculating, it makes sense for larger numbers to appear above the smaller 
ones, just as values on a coordinate system y-axis grow upwards. And "0" would 
be the first/bottommost value.

   Elmar two-cents

P.S.: Is the question about the "qwerty" keyboard going to be next...? ;-)


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