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because once you learn to type numbers on the numeric keypad, you can type them much faster, good for people who have to do a lot of calculations on their computers.

When the standard QWERTY keyboard was introduced there were "text" type applications and data type. The key pad was added for the speed of entering numeric data in to fields and cells as in the case of spreadsheets. The number keys across the keyboard above the qwerty were to slow for many data punchers so the numeric pad was added

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