Re: The case of outnumbered numerator

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh! Absolutely!  But that is my point.  If he is generating 100,000 new 
numbers per year, then by using ABC...abc,,, he'd be using up 1 letter 
per year.  So, that simple solution would cover his butt for the next 52 
years.

A decision to move to base36 in a shop that doesn't use it routinely is 
introducing a bear trap that will break some programmer's ankle at some 
unpredictable moment in some future time.  That, in my opinion, is a 
risk worth avoiding if at all possible.


On 6/17/2015 1:31 PM, John Yeung wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Booth Martin<booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
...
> No, if it took 10 years to get to '899999' then he's on pace to run
> out in a little over a year.
> ...