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Old 03-20-2008, 04:37 PM   #12
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The one that still gets me when I think about it (though I'm used to it now and usually don't) is the power symbols on power switches: On is a line and off is a circle.
Actually, one symbol is zero and the other symbol is one. Power (on and off) is a binary state, so someone decided to use a binary symbol.

I've seen it for I don't know how long, but I didn't figure out what they meant until early 2007.
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