Kilian EvangJun 19

'On November 28th, 2012, Randall Munroe published an xkcd comic that was a calendar in which the size of each date was proportional to how often each date is referenced by its ordinal name (…) "In months other than September, the 11th is mentioned substantially less often than any other date. It's been that way since long before 9/11 and I have no idea why." After digging into the raw data, I believe I have figured out why.'

https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/

The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen

Personal website of David R Hagen, scientific software engineer

Show threadDavid Hembrow
@texttheater excellent work! In the 70s I used a typewriter without a proper 1 (one) key. Didn't like it at the time, but I also never thought about the long term consequences.
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Show threadnicopapJul 2

@hembrow @texttheater you can be forgiven for not accounting for the possibility of systems that started existing only 50 years later.

But considered this: Alan Turing was already working on character recognition software on the Manchester Mk I