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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Blocks Tend to Stick Around

"QWERTY did not systematically separate frequent English digrams in the Sholes & Glidden typebar basket."

Yasuoka and Yasuoka's measurements show a mixed pattern - TH was 180 degrees apart and ST 106 degrees apart, while the extremely frequent ER pair was only 16 degrees apart - undermining a simple rule that frequent pairs were consistently separated.

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Source title On the Prehistory of QWERTY
Source authors Koichi Yasuoka; Motoko Yasuoka
Source year 2011
Confidence high
Importance high
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