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What is it with camera manufacturers and zero-indexing their model numbers? From the article the first Kodak Brownie model was the No.0 Brownie and Leica had th
by martyvis 4y ago
What is it with camera manufacturers and zero-indexing their model numbers? From the article the first Kodak Brownie model was the No.0 Brownie and Leica had the 0-Series.
What other products did this?
- jzwinck 4y agoSRAM bicycle parts start from X3 for the cheap stuff up to X9 for nice parts, then X0 is better than X9 and XX is the best. XX can be read as "X ten" but why is X0 between X9 and XX?
- dylan604 4y agobecause they followed the rotary phone dial? i've seen number sequence examples that start with 1-9 followed by 0 as the 10th digit. bogus/placeholder credit card numbers commonly used 12345678901234 type of sequence. since 1 is technically the first digit of any phone number, placeholder number sequences often started at 1 and ended with 0 for 10 digit numbers. lots of people think of 1 as the first number (zero isn't really a number), so it's just a convenient place holder for that 10th digit written as a single digit.