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Cyph0n
3737 days ago
Are the order numbers serial? They can't have received 2.6 mil orders, right? :O
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Terribledactyl
3737 days ago
Some interesting reading on this sort of thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
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berberous
3737 days ago
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.
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jhspaybar
3737 days ago
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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem