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Letter: Letter

Published 3 October 1998

From Dennis Simpson

I suspect that Panasonic makes not ten but hundreds of different types of
telephone when differences such as language, national standards and design
revisions are taken into account.

If you are truly worried about redundancy I suggest that you should have
thought about replacing “September” at the bottom of your page (nine alphabetic
characters, 5 × 1012 possibilities) with 09 (only 100). Unless of course you
agree that a little redundancy is in fact useful and user friendly.

Feltham, Middlesex

Issue no. 2154 published 3 October 1998

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