Why do calculators and telephone keypads have different layouts? Because of the alphabetic requirements of the latter.

Imagine a phone dial that looks like this to match a calculator:

7 | 8 | 9
pqrs| tuv | wxyz
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4 | 5 | 6
ghi | jkl | mno
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1 | 2 | 3
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| abc | def


The letters are out of "order" unless you have the number 1 in the upper left corner and the 9 in the lower right corner.

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