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by Cyph0n 3737 days ago
Are the order numbers serial? They can't have received 2.6 mil orders, right? :O
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Some interesting reading on this sort of thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

The serials seem to have started at xxxxxxx23xxxxx. I'm not sure how serial they are after that, but that puts things on the high-end estimate at hundred of thousands, not millions.
They almost certainly aren't serial, for example, there seems to be a chunk of zeroes that are fixed removing at least a few digits.