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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: decimals in the serial field
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Date: 17 Jun 91 17:01:47 GMT
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In-Reply-To: mohta@NECOM830.CC.TITECH.AC.JP's message of 17 Jun 91 14:33:49 GMT

In article <9106171434.AA24830@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@NECOM830.CC.TITECH.AC.JP (Masataka Ohta) writes:
   Isn't it a good idea to use numbers like 320001, 320002, 320003,
   ... , 320010, ... , 320100, ... and then 330001 without "."?

I find numbers like 91061203 much more readable.  That denotes my
third try last Wednesday.  It even sorts, if that's of any value to
you.