Wednesday, 27 July 2005

When a serial number really isn’t

I’m installing a new hard drive in my wife’s PC, to replace the 5+ year-old that has died. I dutifully noted the part number and serial number for warranty registration purposes, since this drive has a 5-year warranty itself. Calling it a “serial number” may be stretching it, however: Y2CJECZE.

Can you call a string a “serial number” when only one of the characters qualifies as a numerical value?

posted on July 27, 2005 3:01 PM
Comments

Sure, they could just be hexadecimal or base64...

Posted by: Tom Bridge at July 28, 2005 9:08 AM





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