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Originally Posted by NatCh
Flown in on magic carpets, I s'pose? 
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.
I suppose that made sense to whoever came up with it and implemented it, but from an electronic/electrical perspective, it's backwards. The circle, being a closed figure, is more representative of a circuit that's on -- they call them circuits because they only work when they're "closed." Whereas the line is more like a circuit when it's off because the ends aren't touching and it's an open figure, just like a circuit when it's off is "open." |
Well, it is not really a line and a circle. This is the digital age and it is a 1 and a 0. 1 is on while 0 is off.
Dale