Subj : test
To   : August Abolins
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Jun 12 2021 16:50:58

Hello August,

On Monday April 12 2021 17:28, you wrote to Stas Mishchenkov:

 AA> I *have* asked the great ftsc oracle and it spoke to me thusly:

 AA> "The serial number MAY BE any eight character hexadecimal
 AA> number, as long as it is unique"  [Emphasis in CAPS]

 AA> MAY is just a suggestion.  So is the "eight" part actually.

By that reasoning not only the "eight" but the "character", "hexadecimal" and "number" are just suggestions as well. By that reasoning it could be anything including "empty".

So by reasoning ad absurdum it follows that you are wrong. The correct interpretation is that it MUST be an eight digit hexadecimal number, but the value MAY be any value as long as it is unique.


Cheers, Michiel

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