Truck with same plate as my FJR!

[RadioHowie]

chances are very good that someone else has your the same ID number as you. there are only 387,420,489 possible combination for a nine digit number and there are an estimated 303,824,640 ppl in the US. There is Def some reusing going on! give it another 10 years and see how many people have your number!

Huh?

Lessee, since we are using the decimal system there are 10 possible numbers for each number place (zero is a possibility in any position), and there are nine numbers, so the number of possible combinations of a 9 digit is 10^9 or 1 billion.

I know that there are certain number combinations that are invalid (like 000-00-0000) but there can't be 600 million invalid combos.

Not to mention that a Georgia plate with the same exact number as a Florida plate is STILL a different plate...not to mention most plates are alphanumeric and here in Floristupid, we use 7 character plates, not 9.

 

[Fred W]

chances are very good that someone else has your the same ID number as you. there are only 387,420,489 possible combination for a nine digit number and there are an estimated 303,824,640 ppl in the US. There is Def some reusing going on! give it another 10 years and see how many people have your number!

Huh?

Lessee, since we are using the decimal system there are 10 possible numbers for each number place (zero is a possibility in any position), and there are nine numbers, so the number of possible combinations of a 9 digit is 109 or 1 billion.

I know that there are certain number combinations that are invalid (like 000-00-0000) but there can't be 600 million invalid combos.

Not to mention that a Georgia plate with the same exact number as a Florida plate is STILL a different plate...not to mention most plates are alphanumeric and here in Floristupid, we use 7 character plates, not 9.

Umm, I was talking about SSNs.

For license plates (in NH) there are only 7 characters also and MC plates only have 5.

However since each character can be either a number or a letter, that provides 35 possibilities for each (zeroes are changed to the letter "O" but the letter "L" is allowed)

So a seven character plate has 357 possibilities, or 64,339,296,875 unique possibilities and a 5 character plate has 355 or 52,521,875. I'm pretty sure that they don't need to reuse any currently active combinations.

 

[RadioHowie]

chances are very good that someone else has your the same ID number as you. there are only 387,420,489 possible combination for a nine digit number and there are an estimated 303,824,640 ppl in the US. There is Def some reusing going on! give it another 10 years and see how many people have your number!

Huh?

Lessee, since we are using the decimal system there are 10 possible numbers for each number place (zero is a possibility in any position), and there are nine numbers, so the number of possible combinations of a 9 digit is 109 or 1 billion.

I know that there are certain number combinations that are invalid (like 000-00-0000) but there can't be 600 million invalid combos.

Not to mention that a Georgia plate with the same exact number as a Florida plate is STILL a different plate...not to mention most plates are alphanumeric and here in Floristupid, we use 7 character plates, not 9.

Umm, I was talking about SSNs.

For license plates (in NH) there are only 7 characters also and MC plates only have 5.

However since each character can be either a number or a letter, that provides 35 possibilities for each (zeroes are changed to the letter "O" but the letter "L" is allowed)

So a seven character plate has 357 possibilities, or 64,339,296,875 unique possibilities and a 5 character plate has 355 or 52,521,875. I'm pretty sure that they don't need to reuse any currently active combinations.

Well that's what you bozos get for derailing this thread from plate #s to SSN #s.

 

[Fred W]

 

[RadioHowie]

I don't know why this has been nagging at the back of my mind, but if I'm wrong with my calculations, please correct me....

Typical SSN# is xxx-xx-xxxx. 9 digits, right?

The biggest nine digit number is 999,999,999, right? For a SS# 999-99-9999.

So the total number of possible Social Security numbers is 999,999,999.

What am I missing? Forest for the trees?

Fred, from my calculations, you're 1 billion is about 900 million high, and boaks...well, I have NO idea where your 387,420,489 thousand comes from. :blink:

I think you guys are over-thinking this.

 

[Fred W]

I don't know why this has been nagging at the back of my mind, but if I'm wrong with my calculations, please correct me....
Typical SSN# is xxx-xx-xxxx. 9 digits, right?

The biggest nine digit number is 999,999,999, right? For a SS# 999-99-9999.

So the total number of possible Social Security numbers is 999,999,999.

What am I missing? Forest for the trees?

Fred, from my calculations, you're 1 billion is about 900 million high, and boaks...well, I have NO idea where your 387,420,489 thousand comes from. :blink:

I think you guys are over-thinking this.

Howie, what is 999,999,999 + 1?

And 387,420,489 is 387 million...

That number would have been correct if there were only nine possible numbers that could be used (no zero) for 9 places.

99 = 387420489

 

[RadioHowie]

Howie, what is 999,999,999 + 1?

Red?

 

[Fred W]

Howie, what is 999,999,999 + 1?

Red?

...as in :blushing: ?

 

[RadioHowie]

Howie, what is 999,999,999 + 1?

Red?

...as in :blushing: ?

Sure....why not!

Mathematical BrainFart. I was thinking 99 million...not 999 million. That's where I came up with my "900 million off".

Signed,

Forrest Gump

 

[Fred W]

S'ok Howie.

We all know you have been under a lot of tension lately...

:fie:

 

[RadioHowie]

S'ok Howie.
We all know you have been under a lot of tension lately...

:fie:

Oh you sonofabitch!!!!!

That's actually funny. True, but funny, ya bastid.

 

[exskibum]

S'ok Howie.
We all know you have been under a lot of tension lately...

Now -- if only his cam chain had been.

 

[RadioHowie]

S'ok Howie.
We all know you have been under a lot of tension lately...

Now -- if only his cam chain had been.

NOT so funny. :****:

 

[mbottoms]

Made me chuckle!

Mark

 

[RadioHowie]

Made me chuckle!Mark

YOU have just received a transfer of the "Curse of Odot."

Use it wisely.

 

[Spud]

I think they should still go for the conviction. Would you expect anything less from the government? Back when I used to be a prosecutor, we'd stuck by the motto that "it's easy to convict the guilty, convicting the innocent is the real challenge!" h34r:

 

[Crash Cash]

Hey, good news... they looked at it and they say it's an out of state tag, and my violation has been dismissed. They didn't call me back in the 3-5 days they promised, but hey, it's a state agency. So... case closed! :yahoo:

 

[mcatrophy]

Hey, good news... they looked at it and they say it's an out of state tag, and my violation has been dismissed. They didn't call me back in the 3-5 days they promised, but hey, it's a state agency. So... case closed! :yahoo:

Good result, but get it in writing, or they'll be after you for unpaid fines when their computer throws it up again.