RE: [lojban] (from lojban-beginners) pi'e

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Sat Sep 22 2001 - 09:54:29 EDT


Edward,

Typewriters, computer keyboards, and school recitations still put 0 after 9
rather than before 1. Such is Human Stupidity.

This is logical. Originally typewrites had no 1 or 0. You code use the
letters l and O. They look the same so that is good enough until computers
came along and actually needed a distinction. They did not want to change
the relationship between the numbers and letters ( the two between the q & w
on a qwerty keyboard). There was not room enough left of the 2 for both the
1 & 0 so they put one on each end.

Carl



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