Just A Whimsical Thought...

Jackdaw33 | 19:53 Thu 15th Mar 2018 | Technology

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...can anyone come up with a logical reason why numeric keypads on telephones and calculators are in reverse order? Just noticed this today.

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Buenchico

Numeric keypads followed the design used for mechanical adding machines:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0268/0005/products/Victor_Adding_Machine_1.JPG?v=1475274379

More here:
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question641.htm

Jackdaw33

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I had a feeling you might know, Chico. Cheers.

Tilly2

Chico is nothing if not logical. :-)

Jackdaw33

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He's our very own Mr Spock!

johnk

I never even noticed!! I'm so observant?

Khandro

I recently read of an English doctor working in the Far East who had trained an assistant to use a calculator and he noticed whenever she used it she always checked the answer on her abacus.

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