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		cshesse on Oct 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radia... Well as long as they add more digits for longer numbers, I foresee no problems.

nobody31 on Oct 28, 2011 [–]

200 million container movements across 100 countries - all computerized, all labelled with a fixed format ID.

And you don't see the problem with expanding a serial number field in the middle of the code?

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