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A numeric keypad, number pad, numpad, or ten key, [1] [2] [3] is the palm-sized, usually-17-key section of a standard computer keyboard, usually on the far right. It provides calculator -style efficiency for entering numbers.
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The first key-activated mechanical calculators and many cash registers used "parallel" keys with one column of 0 to 9 for each position the machine could use. A smaller, 10-key input first started on the Standard Adding Machine in 1901. [9] The calculator had the digit keys arranged in one row, with zero on the left, and 9 on the right.
Women and Men Working in Office at Standard Adding Machine Company, 3701 Forest Park Boulevard, May 1910. Standard Adding Machine Company was founded in the early 1890s (first records are from 1892) [2] [3] [4] in Illinois and was the first company to (successfully) [5] release a 10-key adding machine.
David Sundstrand (1880-1930) was a Swedish-born American inventor of the 10-key adding machine, 10-key calculator keyboard, a 10-keypad now used on computer keyboards, and a co-founder of Sundstrand Corporation. Sundstrand's 1914 adding machine had the first now common place keyboard for 10-key calculators and numeric keypads.
An E-8 crew member entering data using an AN/PYQ-10 before a flight. The AN/PYQ-10 Simple Key Loader (SKL) is a ruggedized, portable, hand-held fill device, for securely receiving, storing, and transferring data between compatible cryptographic and communications equipment.
This printing calculator made by Sharp uses ten-key notation. Notice the size and placement of the keys, including the extra-large "+/=" and the red "-/=" keys. The ten-key notation input method first became popular with accountants' paper tape adding machines. It generally makes the assumption that entered numbers are being summed, although ...
The Key (Elfgren and Strandberg novel), by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren, 2013; The Key (Tanizaki novel), by Jun'ichirÅ Tanizaki, 1956 "The Key" (short story), by Isaac Asimov, 1966; The Key: A Startling Enquiry into the Riddle of Man's Past, a 1969 book by John Philip Cohane; The Key, a magazine published by Kappa Kappa Gamma