What is the purpose of a NumLock key?

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In what world would anybody need to deactivate their numpad?

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In addition to /u/mmmmmmBacon12345’s excellent point about spreadsheets, a lot of old games used to use numpad for 8-direction movement. For quite a few years I played games way more than I punched in numbers so I always had numlock off. With the advent of WASD as a common control scheme that changed.

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