On a standard UK typewriter keyboard, over which number is a circumflex positioned?
Typewriter one to superimpose multiple keystrikes on a single location. The ¢ symbol (meaning cents) was located above the number 6 on electric typewriters, while ASCII computer keyboards have ^ instead. A number of typographical conventions originate from the widespread use of the typewriter, based on the characteristics and limitations of the typewriter itself. For example, the QWERTY keyboard typewriter did not include keys for the en dash and the em dash. To overcome this limitation, users typically typed more than one adjacent hyphen to approximate these symbols. This typewriter convention is still sometimes used today, even though modern computer word
IBM Selectric typewriter influential Model M (1985). In computer keyboard standards, this was formalized in the American Standards Association X4.14-1971 standard as "typewriter pairing" (colloquially a typewriter-paired keyboard), along with bit-paired keyboards, but became the only standard in the successor X4.23-1982 standard. The Selectric keyboard layout was so influential that two decades later "PC Magazine" wrote that non-IBM personal computer companies' keyboards "slavishly" imitated it. The new layout was not universal, however – internationally, many layouts kept the earlier standard, which is most visible in yielding ", as on the standard UK layout. Also, the bit-paired keyboard layout mostly died out, but is