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This was a really fun read. The explanation for the 1860s error rate peak blew my mind. I wonder how many other characters could generate similar errors and how
by Unknoob 9y ago
This was a really fun read. The explanation for the 1860s error rate peak blew my mind. I wonder how many other characters could generate similar errors and how long it will take for us to notice the patterns.
- gumby 9y agoA lot of manual typewriters lacked both 1 and 0 as l and O served just as well. So there's another.
- drhagen 9y agoThe only reason anyone noticed the error with the 11th of the month was because we had enough similar phrases (8th, 12th, etc.) that we could make a statistical argument that something was amiss. It would be hard to even detect most other errors in the database.