Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads? 393
dotancohen writes "Although the telephone has the 1-2-3 key on the top row, most calculators and keyboards have 7-8-9 on the top row. Switching between the two destroys muscle- and spatial- memory. Do any slashdotters use a scientific calculator with 1-2-3 on the top row? I've already scraped and resoldered my Casio fx-82 calculator to have 1-2-3 on the top, and remapped the numpad in Kubuntu, but if there exist any calculators like this already on the market, I'd buy two."
Really?? (Score:3, Funny)
Really? It's that hard to switch between number pads on calculators and phones? That's what you're posting to slashdot?
Have you considered getting out more often?
Ask Slahdot: Calculators with Rotary Dial? (Score:5, Funny)
Are you kidding? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Easy (Score:4, Funny)
You've clearly never looked at a photo of a girl on MySpace or a dating website. Phones are always held in front of bathroom mirrors, so it all works out.
Re:Don't you have anything better to do? (Score:5, Funny)
I rarely call people on my calculator.
Touch-Tone with three fingers (Score:4, Funny)
Re:OCD Much? (Score:5, Funny)
I learned to tell time at a much younger age then I learned how to use a phone or a calculator. And so I learned that numbers are arranged in a circle, with 1 just to the right of the top most point, 3 straight across to the right, 6 at the bottom, and 9 to the left.
Clearly the correct layout for a numeric keypad should reflect this!
Using mod 10 (or, looking at the last digit), the correct layout to match clocks would look something like this:
X 2 X
9 X 3
X 6 X
with the extra key going on the bottom somewhere. Filling in the corner numbers, rounding down, it should look like this:
0 2 1
9 X 3
7 6 4
The middle of a clock often has a couple of circles on an axle - one for the hour hand and one for the minute hand, so it probably makes sense to put the number 8 in the middle (which also has two circles). This leaves 5 for the extra key, and a final configuration of:
0 2 1
9 8 3
7 6 4
- 5 -
Does anybody know where I can get calculators and phones that match this obviously superior design?
-D. Vorak