Edward,
Typewriters, computer keyboards, and school recitations still put 0 after 9
rather than before 1. Such is Human Stupidity.
This is logical. Originally typewrites had no 1 or 0. You code use the
letters l and O. They look the same so that is good enough until computers
came along and actually needed a distinction. They did not want to change
the relationship between the numbers and letters ( the two between the q & w
on a qwerty keyboard). There was not room enough left of the 2 for both the
1 & 0 so they put one on each end.
Carl
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