Why are telephone and keyboard numbers oppositely...

joe678

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Jun 12, 2001
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oriented? phones go from 1-9 down whereas keyboards keypads go 1-9 up... throws me off sometimes when im entering stuff using the keypad...
 

Lithium381

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May 12, 2001
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i've gotten used to it, like our 10-key calculator is numbered differently than the numbers on an ATM pad......should make a standard