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Article #957Re: Most important information first
From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1988 22:52
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1988 22:52
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According to wtwolfe@hubcap.UUCP (Bill Wolfe): >I'd like to point out that telephone numbers are presented as > Country code - area code - local number >or > (Area code) local number, > >and somehow, [...] people are able to rapidly scan forward >to the local number, automatically focusing on the information >which is locally important. This is true. However, the usual representations of phone numbers include hypens and parentheses, which ease rapid and accurate parsing. A simple set of numbers with nothing but spaces to separate them is more difficult to parse than one with punctuation. -- Chip Salzenberg <chip@ateng.uu.net> or <uunet!ateng!chip> A T Engineering My employer may or may not agree with me. The urgent leaves no time for the important.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Most important information first Message-ID: <1988Sep2.185211.6687@ateng.uucp> Date: 2 Sep 88 22:52:10 GMT References: <2907@hubcap.UUCP> Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 18