qbteachmt
Level 15

"My ten-key says it's -4442"

Do you know why the ten-key pad on the phone is the opposite sequence from calculators and computers? When the phone companies moved to ten-key, they first used off-the-shelf ten-key pad parts for push-button phones. They found that accountants kept misdialing. So, they reversed that arrangement.

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