<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">It's not a programmer failure - it's a requirements failure. Some marketeer or architect failed to specify<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">"Serial number will not include letters I and O"<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com" target="_blank">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I know nothing of modern languages; I stopped learning how to program<br>
at Cobol, Algol, and Fortran.<br>
But I have a question spinning off this serial number: F9IANU000217.<br>
<br>
Given that only a few lines of code should be necessary to create serial<br>
numbers, how much more code would be needed to exclude upper case "I"<br>
and "O"?<br>
<br>
This is the first time I have ever seen an upper case "I" used in a<br>
serial number. The type face used for this serial number made it<br>
difficult to see that the third character was an "I" and not a "1".<br>
I have seen an upper case "O" used however, and that is even more<br>
stupid.<br>
<br>
For the record, the serial number above identifies an electronic device<br>
manufactured by a well-known company. It didn't work out of the box,<br>
and after an hour with tech support I was told to return it as<br>
defective.<br>
<br>
Which I will do.<br>
<br>
Sean<br>
<br>
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