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Re:Pfizer vaccinated have lower antibody levels targeting th... by alok-g on Sunday June 06, 2021 @12:54PM (#27414415)
Use of decimal numbers sounds better all of a sudden for naming the virus variants. :-)
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Re:Pfizer vaccinated have lower antibody levels targeting th... by officialjunk on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:32PM (#27414703)
seems the decimals are already currently being used for virus strains: sars-cov1, sars-cov-2...

for variants it could be minor versions such as sars-cov-2.4 but then there may be confusion about them being related sequentially and that one is an "improvement" over the other. :)

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Re:Pfizer vaccinated have lower antibody levels targeting th... by alok-g on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:41PM (#27414776)
That's just differentiating nominal numbers from others [1]. The same is much too common everywhere -- zipcodes, student ID number, etc. I am still missing reason why the suggested base 24 is better. :-)

[1] https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/cardinal-ordinal-nominal....

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Re:Pfizer vaccinated have lower antibody levels targeting th... by officialjunk on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:48PM (#27424766)
i'm mostly joking. it's not better, at least not to me.
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Re:Pfizer vaccinated have lower antibody levels targeting th... by alok-g on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:22PM (#27425266)
The said joking is/was good with me. :-)
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