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Actually this is country specific AFAIK. Wikipedia has a picture[1] of a phone from New Zealand which has 9 as the shortest.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_dial#/media/File:New_Ze...




This might also explain why the Kiwi emergency number is 111 as a counterpoint to the UK's 999. Interesting!


Kiwis don't count /s




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