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Marcin, thank you. I have read this paper. However this is not what was in the first patents or in any of the Remington patents. Nor was this how the first QWERTY typewriters built. The big misconception is the reason the keyboard was invented simply was not mechanical.
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“Nor was this how the first QWERTY typewriters built.” This is simply not accurate – see Neil Kay’s papers that analyzed and proved this mathematically. Your Quora answer offers very limited citations on the relevant portions.
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Marcin, thank you. I have seen Neil’s work and it is wonderful. The reality is the bigram frequency, of which Sholes was aware of was rather high on many key combinations like re and er in which there is lock up. I have worked on Remington models where e & r are on the same bars.
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