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Old 25-February-2008, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Skyfire View Post
Can't they continue with the greek alphabet after this? Or maybe the cyrilic one? That would give at least another 20 years or so ....

... or of course, with China being the up and coming nation, what about using chinese characters instead? That would have to be good for about 2000 years, at least ...
Sure they could. But the point is, they didn't.

I'll also point out that, on the data sheet I'm looking at, they cleverly stopped listing the year code at W for 2009. That's clearly intended to prevent a casual observer from noticing that the sequence ends with Z in 2012!

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