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    Quote Originally Posted by Czech. Republic
    My phone number is eleven digits long, which allows for 99,999,999,999 different combinations.
    Thats assuming that theres someone somewhere with the phone number 1.
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    back in the old days of telephone technology, there were numerous restrictions to which numbers could be used where because phone switches were triggered as each number was dialed/rung. Now that we have technology where the entire number can be saved and sent as a whole, the possibilities are much more numerous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maxico
    Thats assuming that theres someone somewhere with the phone number 1.
    What, you didn't ever see that episode of Family Guy?
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    they'll just make them longer...or use names etc and stuff

    i myyyyyyyyy day phone numbers only had 10 numbers! now they added that new fangled 1 to the area code...
    *mumble grumble*

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    no because the majority of people in the world dont actually have a phone

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    No, because we'll quit using telephones before then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Not At All Reno
    no because the majority of people in the world dont actually have a phone


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    Not any time soon


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    When my stepdad was a kid his phone number was five digits. That's weeeeird. :o

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    That song, it goes "867-5309" they had to take it out of the user system telephone thing because people call it.

    Probably not, but I want that number, gimme.

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    In Norway, we have 8 digits, and the population is somewhere around 5 millions, so it'll take a hell of a long time to occupy all of them.


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    The world will never run out of numbers. They'll just probably add new area codes in the US, create new codes everywhere else.

    How can you explain L.A. having more than one Area Code?

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    i remember when i was a lad we used to press one number and get the guy down the street *reminisces*

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    Instead of increasing the number of digits in phone numbers, you could just increase the base system. For example... hexadecimal! [/geek]

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