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These letters have been used for multiple purposes. Originally, they referred to the leading letters of telephone exchange names.In the mid-20th century United States, before the switch to All-Number Calling, telephone numbers had seven digits including a two-digit prefix which was expressed in letters rather than digits, e.g.; KL5-5445.
Phoneword. Many telephone keypads have letters with the numbers, from which words can be formed. Phonewords are mnemonic phrases represented as alphanumeric equivalents of a telephone number. [1] In many countries, the digits on the telephone keypad also have letters assigned. By replacing the digits of a telephone number with the corresponding ...
The use of letters in exchange names resulted in the placement of letters on the telephone dial, even outside the areas using the letter and number combinations. Some Canadian areas at first used original letter schemes, notably Calgary, Alberta, until later standardization within North America.
Calculator spelling. Calculator spelling is an unintended characteristic of the seven-segment display traditionally used by calculators, in which, when read upside-down, the digits resemble letters of the Latin alphabet. Each digit may be mapped to one or more letters, creating a limited but functional subset of the alphabet, sometimes referred ...
Belgian telephone numbers consist of three parts: First '0', secondly the "zone prefix" ( A) which has one or two digits for landlines and three digits for mobile phones, and thirdly the "subscriber's number" ( B ). Land lines always have nine digits. They are prefixed by a zero, followed by the zone prefix.
Numzi - free web application for converting numbers to words/phrases and vice versa using the Major System. Covers the English language with over 220,000 words. Numzi also has an iOS app which is a portable Major System number-word converter. 2Know is free Windows software for converting numbers to words (English, German, French).
Leet. An "eleet hacker" (31337 H4XØR) laptop sticker, along with a "Free Kevin [Mitnick] " sticker. Leet (or " 1337 "), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet.
In mathematics. 666 is the sum of the first thirty-six natural numbers, which makes it a triangular number: [4] . Since 36 is also triangular, 666 is a doubly triangular number. [5] Also, 36 = 15 + 21 where 15 and 21 are triangular as well, whose squares ( 152 = 225 and 212 = 441) add to 666 and have a difference of 216 = 6 × 6 × 6.