31st May 2003, 4:25 PM
Of course they look alike, only upside down, but that's what determines what a letter is, position! A d, b, p, and q, are obviously different just by looking at them, but the reality is they are determined purely by orientation. Perhaps you are slightly dislexic :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)