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Imagine inputting: "IiIIil" but meant to input "IiIIi1" Oops now my package is going to Joe Blow on the other side of the country. That’s probably why.
by xyst 1y ago
Imagine inputting: "IiIIil" but meant to input "IiIIi1"
Oops now my package is going to Joe Blow on the other side of the country.
That’s probably why.
- saulpw 1y ago25^7 is 6 billion, and there are fewer than 200m people in Japan. That's enough for one character to essentially be error correction.
- voxelghost 1y ago25^6=244,140,625 - I think I have seen estimates of 100,000,000 addressable entities in the Japan postal address system (a bit half of them being households, the rest companies,public buildings, various organizations and so on )
- saulpw 1y agoTFA says "seven-digit combinations of numbers and letters".
- voxelghost 1y agoYes absolutely. But my comment was just to confirm what you were saying about 25^7 (with one control digit) i.e. 25^6 would be enough to cover everything that is addressable in the system today. If we increase that to alphabet+ numbers 35^6, it is even more feasible.
- saulpw 1y agoOh, I see, thanks for clarifying.
- _Algernon_ 1y agoIf my password manager has an option to not use similar looking characters when generating a password, it should be trivial to do the same for this system.
- pjc50 1y agoGiven that this is Japan, they probably just mean digits 0-9, which are quite often rendered that way rather than 一 to 九.