Re[2]: Usage of Number type for table columns

Wednesday, August 15, 2001, 2:10:58 PM, David wrote:
>If for whatever reason this becomes a four-digit number
>(skip the technical explanations of why that will NEVER
>happen, just think of the logical approach - we dial 1 to
>get long-distance, why not a an additional digit(s) to
>access a region, kind of like what you do now if you use one
>of those 10-10 numbers)

To reinforce what David said, I remember when those 10-10 numbers used to be just 10 numbers. I used to dial 10288 to get AT&T, not I believe I'd need to dial 1010288. I don't recall what the reason was for the expansion.

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Jonathan Gennick
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