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Should’t there be discussion about changing this number scheme? According to Wikipedia the NNNN part is really NNGC. C is a checksum, giving NNG as a serial nu
by ttepasse 3y ago
Should’t there be discussion about changing this number scheme?
According to Wikipedia the NNNN part is really NNGC. C is a checksum, giving NNG as a serial number with G even/odd for gender. Sweden seems to have ca. 115000 births per year, making 315 births per day. But those may not be evenly distributed. The available space or serial numbers seems awfully close.
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y agoYes, there's only about 500 numbers per legal gender per day. There are overflows on certain dates and so some people get assigned a number with a slightly wrong birthdate. As inconvenient as this is for those individuals, it'd be a lot of work for society at large to move to a new system, so it's probably never going to happen.