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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
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<DIV><BR>> It strikes me that a large part of the number's "significance" is
that <BR>> it is a sign of "our" era and of computer-generated IDs.</DIV>
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<DIV>Yes, that too: or at least it symbolises the technological society of
Typhon’s era, rather than the post-technological society of the Whorl in its
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>