不知您有沒(méi)有仔細(xì)觀察過(guò)我們天天使用的電話：它的按鍵排列，0是在最下方的。不是應(yīng)該越小的數(shù)字越應(yīng)該排在前面嗎？為什么電話的按鍵布局這么特別呢？下面這篇文章就將為您解釋這個(gè)問(wèn)題。

Mechanical adding machines, based on rotating wheels, always have the 0 buttonadjacentto the 1 button. By convention, most old adding machines had the numbers increasing in value from the bottom. When the numbers were put onto a pad arranged as a 3 by 3 grid with one left over, the order of the numbers was kept the same.

On a rotary telephone dial, the 0 comes adjacent to the 9 because a 0 in the telephone number is signaled by 10 pulses on the line. When telephones acquired push buttons in a grid, the ordering of the buttons was carried over from the old telephone dial.

adjacent: 鄰近的

（英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 Annabel 編輯）