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Justin C. Haase wrote:
> So assuming that the first character must be a letter, and that every
other
> character of the remaining 9 could be A-Z or 0-9 (there's underscores and
> other "special" characters, but let's just keep it simple) - that gives a
> grand total of...
>
> 2,640,558,873,378,816
That's true Justin, but a more interesting (and much more difficult)
question is this: How many _meaningful_ names are possible in 10
characters? 'A111111111' isn't a very useful name, in my opinion. Then
again, I guess that's what the 50-char description is for.
While I'm frustrated at times by the 10 character limit, I'm not
convinced it's as big a problem as Steve makes it out to be. On the
other hand, this is one of those things that makes the OS look old or
limited or just generally weird to newcomers.
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