In some cases it’s a flag that there’s a mainframe underneath that people are afraid to touch with the number of digits fixed to save memory. So many other leg

In some cases it’s a flag that there’s a mainframe underneath that people are afraid to touch with the number of digits fixed to save memory. So many other legacy systems assume the field is fixed that you can’t add digits. Companies then look and say, “We can spend tens of millions of dollars to fix this, or we can spend the money on advertising and compensation, and just deal with the issues that come with reusing numbers”