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by afinlayson 1798 days ago
I don't get why we are still using Integers to do phone calls. We could solve this with either a little bit of cooperation with Google + Apple or government stepping in
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What about backward compatibility with traditional phones?
You would prefer floats?

(I kid, I am also puzzled that there is apparently no way for a network to verify a caller is a subscriber and not someone leasing VoIP numbers)

All you need is boolean. It either is or isn't the phone you wanted to call. :)