[Sigia-l] mixing apples and oranges and tomatoes

[Ziya Oz]

"Eric Scheid" wrote:

> Article# 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001234
> 
> Now, arguing that you require all 64 characters to maintain your
> canonical uniqueness, despite the enormity of the scale, is what I would
> call a "pedantically absurd exercise".

If you *are* generating a unique ID with
"000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" USELESS
digits, then you got much bigger problems than worrying about the
'compactness' of your IDs. One assumes that you know what you're doing.

If you have no use for X number of digits, don't generate them to begin
with. If they get used, you cannot arbitrarily eliminate them. This is not
very complicated.

Best,

Ziya