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A comment on Japan facing credit card number shortage. Parent comment
Think of all the extra information we could encode in the number!
They also cannot ask for an extra prefix, since all their forms and systems assume the same prefix is used everywhere.
(Note, I have no idea if this is actually the case, I’m just extrapolating from my experiences here)
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Think of all the extra information we could encode in the number!
They also cannot ask for an extra prefix, since all their forms and systems assume the same prefix is used everywhere.
(Note, I have no idea if this is actually the case, I’m just extrapolating from my experiences here)