> Hardly intuitive, is it. > In what parlance/language does "1" stand for "on?" Binary? On an A/C > line power switch? > And, if it was meant to be a zero, it should have had the slant bar > thru it, like '0', to avoid just this sort of ambiguity. > Hmmm. The electrical symbol for current is 'I'... > Anyhow, it is a curiosity! > > Most ordinary humans do not think in terms of binary symbols when it > comes to ordinary, everyday items like hardware power switches. My > wall switches, even the toggle or rocker ones, do not have 1 and 0, or > even I and O on them.
I prefer the following symbols for "on" and "off": "On" for on "Off" for off These make sense to me and I seldom find myself confused.... --Mike
