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April 9[edit]

A late note[edit]

I've just realized that in this thread last month:

WP:Reference desk/Archives/Mathematics/2018 March 22#Need raw numbers only for article on vehicle registration plates

When I wrote:

A further complication is that if letters and digits can appear in any order, it is dangerous to allow both the letter O and the digit 0 to be used. Even if the license plate uses distinguishable characters for the two, humans transcribing the plate may not know which symbol has which meaning, and the owner of plate EM6F9VO may get in trouble for something the owner of plate EM6F9V0 did. Other letter/number pairs, like I and 1, may be similarly problematic to a lesser degree.

I should have provided this cite. (Grin.) --69.159.62.113 (talk) 23:53, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There's no law against editing RD archives (unlike archives of Talk pages). —Tamfang (talk) 07:35, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]