This is the door lock where we are staying and I am irritated every time I have to punch in the code.
Looks good to me. The letters are following the same pattern as the numbers - Top to bottom, left to right. ‘C’ is likely a Clear button in case you mess up your code. XYZ was chosen instead of ABC since C already has a use.
yup, definitely a weird choice for grouping but also not random
Either the order is 1,2,3,4,5,X,Y,6,7,8,9,Z,C or it’s 1,6,2,7,3,8,4,9,5,0,X,Z,Y,C, and either way that’s irritating.
Sounds to me like you’re just looking to be irritated by something and you chose this.
You’re welcome to think so, I guess. Not like I could convince you otherwise.
Nah, the numbers are a grouping, the letters are a separate grouping, and there is a clear button.
The order is the same on both, in columns from top left to bottom right.
And the clear button is bottom right.This is just how you sanely organize digits when you have to split them. It’s either down the middle (12345:67890), pairs (or odds&evens depending on how you look at it), or 0:123:456:789:0.
I would be more infuriated if it was 1-7 on one side, and then 890CXYZ on the other.
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You mean the clear button should be somewhere in the middle, sorted alphabetically?
‘C’ is a special char here. All codes must start with it, leaving the rest grouped in two groups: numbers, then letters. X Y Z is a pretty common placholder for ‘11’ ‘12’ and ‘13’. ‘C’ will also function as a clear button, to begin entering a new code attempt. Probably why they chose ‘C’ as a simple label.
I may have gone with left to right then top to bottom, instead of top to bottom then left to right; but that’s more personal preference.
https://codelocks.zohodesk.eu/portal/en/kb/articles/cl100-cl200-2018-code-change-instructions
From my experience with mathematics, algebra, and calculus, C is a representation of analogous data storage. This means the C is the button used to change the coding. A better way to identify it would be to consider it as “clear” or “cancel”. So like you put the wrong code in, use the C to start the code over
I find the grouping and ordering somehow soothing, except that years of programming have taught me that number sets should be zero-indexed. Get that 0 to the top left please.
People really live their lives choosing to be annoyed by the most inoffensive things
You’re literally in Mildly Infuriating. I don’t know what you expect.
Goes to mildy infuriating, doesn’t post mildly infuriating things. Somehow my problem for being mildly infuriated by this
I had some theories as to why that was that way (swappable faceplate like an Engima machine ring setting?) so I went to their website. The plot thickens:
According to the company the UK isn’t part of Europe, but instead belongs alongside Africa and the Middle East.
Brexit baby.
Brexit was the UK leaving the European Union, not leaving the continent of Europe, right?
Separate website is easier for compliance, so they obey one set of rules than two (UK and EU).
This design is intencional… and diabolical.
