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I've only just noticed that the number pad on my keyboard (laid out like a calculator) is the opposite was to the numbers on the telephone right next to it - and I probably use both without really looking at the keys. Then I always did walk round in a dream.
.... What I really want to know is - why do our two Honda cars each have the windscreen wiper on different sides of the steering wheel. I can cope with different makes being different but the same make! Anyway, I digress ....
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> .... What I really want to know is - why do our two Honda cars each have the windscreen wiper on different sides of the steering wheel. I can cope with different makes being different but the same make! Anyway, I digress ... Now you really go too far, Jo! Check out this website to satiate all of your curiosities: http://www.howthingswork.com/ It may not contain everthing you want to know but it's a pretty cool site. 
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Without wishing to add to your insomnia, Rubrick, but ATMs are laid out the same way as phones, but no raised dot in the middle (or not in the two I checked). If I remember rightly ATMs first arrived in the seventies, before push button phones, so were the phones following the ATMs? Of course this just pushes the question of why the difference further back.
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> Can one ever go too far? 'Course not, Jo.  Your enquiry was just a bit on the tricky side, that's all. Was the site any help??
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>Was the site any help??
It was very helpful, thank-you. Unfortunately I've been reading up about "why Christmas" and keep forgetting why I went to the site in the first place!!!!
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I'm also able to make the £ with ALT-0163. Perhaps the creators of ASCII decided that £ was important enough to need two ways to make it.
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Ok, this is my second post in a row, different subject in the same thread, but oh well.
About there being no raised dot on the 5 on ATMs: Most ATMs, where I live at least, are drive-up accessible. Now, if you need a raised dot to find the 5 on an ATM, you shouldn't be driving in the first place.
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>£ with ALT-0163
My idea of important would be the make the £ sign ALT-001. If it only comes in at ALT-0163 it isn't exactly in there with the big guys is it?
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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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