20 Dec
2005
20 Dec
'05
5:55 p.m.
In article <Pine.SUN.4.20.0512201204540.7258-100000 at osfn.org>,
William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> writes:
Yes, but if we had a collective database where everyone registered
their serial numbers, such things would be visible again.
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> For serial numbers in general, it can be handy to
track numbers for machine
s
> which had very low production runs as a way of
estimating how many machines
were made - as
this information isn't often known otherwise.
This is exactly where the system falls apart - when a manufacturer skips a
block of numbers in a smaller run, it is not very obvious from looking at
a small sample distribution.