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Letter: Letters: Clever slant

Published 1 August 1992

From ALEC VANS

Those figures made up from bits of the figure 8 which form the display
on my pocket calculator, for example, are a very clever invention by somebody.
But the question that keeps occurring to me is: why they slope to the right
instead of being upright? Perhaps the actual inventor might read this letter
and let us know why he/she made them slope.

Alec Vans Newnham, Gloucestershire

Issue no. 1832 published 1 August 1992

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