First, a question that I imagine Mr. Nolan might be able to answer… I got curious about how many new ID numbers are generated over the course of a year (counting dupes that are later retracted is fine.)
I was curious because I noticed in generating an ID this evening that we are apparently getting close to issuing ID 15252525 (if it’s more or less linear now.) So, what’s the coolest/weirdest/easiest to remember ID you’ve ever personally encountered?
Excluding my own, the easiest ID for me to remember is ANTD #20001492
In recent years we wind up issuing somewhere around 25,000 new IDs per year, most of those to scholastic and youth age members.
We don’t issue consecutive numbers any more, the 8th digit is a check digit. So there’s no guarantee we would issue that ID (I’d have to compute the check digit for the first 7 digits, and that’s too much work.)
More than enough work there already, thanks…
I was trying to recall the last time a pattern really caught my eye. One of my friends has “666” as part of the ID, and it’s how I find him quickly in MSA if I need to. I still need to look at my ID card, because I always end up transposing digits.
We’ve had at least one person who received an ID ending in ‘666’ request a different ID.
Interestingly, I submitted a new membership last night that was assigned ID 15253355. A lot of new members in the last 24 hours?
Looking at just the first 7 digits we went from 1525252 to 1525335, or less than 100 new members. This is the time of year when we get a lot of new school-age members, though.
One digit away.
Not so much work, then. All you had to do was to look up ten ID numbers, 15252520 through 15252529, till you found the real one.
There’s an attorney in the Chicago area with a phone number something like 1-800-600-0000. He advertises it on TV as “one, eight hundred, six million”.
Bill Smythe
I still remember the phone number of a girlfriend from High School… the last 4 digits were 7399, conveniently spelling s-e-x-y. (In fact, that’s how she gave me her number and I still remember it coming up on 25 years later.) Hoping that isn’t too r-a-c-y for the forum.
Anyway, what Nolan said about non-consecutive was correct (not that I doubted,) as an ID I generated this evening begins 12540… Unless there really was a jump of over 150.
I’d like to have an affiliate with the ID number A8675309.
Shouldn’t that be “J8675309”? And how many days will it take for me to get that tune out of my mind?
Just replace it with A6345789: can’t go wrong with Wilson Pickett.