The imminent stable-version apocalypse

Posted Feb 5, 2021 23:33 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (guest, #33263)
In reply to: The imminent stable-version apocalypse by amarao
Parent article: The imminent stable-version apocalypse

>The same goes for short numbered ICQ number (if someone remember _that_ antiquity), same with phone numbers

ICQ account numbers were assigned in monotonically increasing fashion, I believe.
However, the phone numbers seem to be allocated as a radix tree here, so they are prone to be a lot more unbalanced than ICQ#, or kernel versions for that matter.

(The OSM database, which I have taken care of for a handful of years, yields this statistic piece about phone numbers for my area code: /^[0-9]/: 4807 POIs, /^9/: 450, /^99/: 242, /^999/: 133.)