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Re:Japan facing credit card number shortage by x87678r on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:52PM (#24276605)
The sixteen digits are shared globally. Japan would only get a fraction, the size I'm not sure.
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Re:Japan facing credit card number shortage by donor20 on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @12:31AM (#24279140)
16 digits is a thousand trillion. That's 1.2 million numbers PER PERSON in the global world. This is two few for 5 credit cards in your wallet?

Come ON! STOP with these clickbait / alarmist headlines.

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