why is the high setting right next to the light setting on a stove? Wouldn’t the low setting be first with the option to increase and release more fluid rather than suddenly creating a large fire?
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Imagine you want to build a stove. You could make it so the knob goes off-min-med-max. But you don’t want to just have three settings, you should be able to use anything in between, so you put a knob that let you select how much gas you want in a continuous way, marking how much you have to turn the knob to select those “base settings”.
There’s a problem: what if you want to select a lower setting than “min”. Between the “off” and the “min”, there’s a zone where the stove doesn’t lets enough gas out to continuously sustain a flame, and it depends on how much gas the grid gives, how windy it is, etc. How can you solve it? Well, instead of going off-min-med-max, you could go off-max-med-min, and you could calculate how much gas your stove will let off at “min” so it’s still safe. You didn’t eliminate that danger zone, but at least the off is next a setting where you want to maximize the amount of gas, not to minimize it.
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