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Topic	What will happen when there are more books than ISBN numbers??
NoxObscuras 02/23/24 7:43:46 PM #6:	marthsheretoo posted... They add more numbers. This has already happened. ISBN-13 is a thing now. Yep, add more numbers. Same thing happened with the Internet and IP addresses. We were running out of IPv4 addresses (2.4 billion total addresses), so they introduced IPv6 (340 undecillion total addresses). For reference 1 billion is 10 and 1 undecillion is 10 so it's a lot more zeros --- Steam/Xbox/PSN = NoxObscuras Z490 \| i9-10900K \| EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra \| 32GB DDR4 3600 \| 4TB SSD <cite>NoxObscuras posted [p:979008333] in What will ... [t:80704405]...</cite> <quote>marthsheretoo posted... </cite><quote>They add more numbers. This has already happened. ISBN-13 is a thing now.</quote>Yep, add more numbers.Same thing happened with the Internet and IP addresses. We were running out of IPv4 addresses (2.4 billion total addresses), so they introduced IPv6 (340 undecillion total addresses). For reference 1 billion is 10 and 1 undecillion is 10 so it's a lot more zeros --- Steam/Xbox/PSN = NoxObscurasZ490 \| i9-10900K \| EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra \| 32GB DDR4 3600 \| 4TB SSD</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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