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From: albert@das.harvard.edu (David Albert)
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Subject: Re: Last Four Digits of Phone is '0000'
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mailrus!gatech!mit-eddie!nathan writes:

>Obviously it's not such an uncommon thing to have four 0's at the end
>of a phone number....

>Is there some particular reason why such numbers are perceived as
>being rare?

Sure!  Only about one number in 10,000 has four 0's at the end.  That's
pretty rare, isn't it?


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