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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:
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No, if it took 10 years to get to '899999' then he's on pace to run
out in a little over a year.
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