Beghilus
As calculator spelling is called an alphabet of letters, which are made upside-down seven-segment - figures obtained: B, E, G / g, h, I, L, O and S. It is sometimes also counted to the letter Z. The name was formed analogously to the terms Abc and alphabet .
Numbers and the resulting letters
The following table shows the seven-segment digits from which the letters result.
| Letter: | B. | E. | G / g | H | I. | L. | O | S. | (Z) |
| Digit: | 8th | 3 | 9/6 | 4th | 1 | 7th | 0 | 5 | (2) |
With a seven-segment display it looks like this:
For example, if you turn the digits 31907018 upside down, you get the word BIOLOGY. If the zero is in the first position, a comma must be entered after the zero on a pocket calculator . Further examples: 7391335 - SEEIGEL, 38317 - LIEBE, 7353.315 - SIE.ESEL, 38715 - SILBE, 3507 - LOSE.
popularity
- A space rock band goes by the name 35007 (LOOSE) .
- British rock band The Hollies released an album in 1979 called Five Three One - Double Seven O Four , shown in numbers 5317704 (HOLLIES) . The cover of the record shows, among other things, an upside-down pocket calculator with said sequence of digits.
- An album by Peter Maffay is entitled "38317 (Love)"
- In the episode The Gaga Gas of the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants , plankton develops a gas that turns an adult into a baby. When he tests it on his computer, Karen, it turns into a calculator with the number 0.7734 (hELLO) .
See also
literature
- Heinrich Hemme: The hell of numbers - 92 mathematical puzzles with detailed solutions , page 19/73
Individual evidence
- ↑ Five Three One - Double Seven O Four at Discogs , accessed August 20, 2010.