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Re:Rotary Cellphone by AKrumbach on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @10:52AM (#22309797)
No; if you look at an old rotary phone, you're counting the number of finger holes in order to determine pulses.

To dial a 0, pulse the line 10 times.

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Re:Rotary Cellphone by pomatic on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @04:50PM (#22313183)
Unless you are in New Zealand - the dial is numbered "backwards" there so 0 is 1 pulse etc.
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Re:Rotary Cellphone by toby on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:51PM (#22313676)
Oh wow, thank you for the memories :) I grew up in New Zealand when everything was pulse dialing and had an American modem that my father got us, so in order to dial any phone number I had to rewrite it by subtracting every digit from 10.
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