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Re: Keyboards again

From Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Keyboards again
Date 2020-09-13 17:54 -0300
Organization Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> PLU codes on fruits and vegetables in the US are four digits.   The
> clerks have most of them memorized after a fairly short period of time.
> 
> Now that we have self-checkouts, I've memorized a couple: 4011 - banana...

One of my father's favorite riffs on someone who was numerically
illiterate was an allusion to the putative number, forty-leven.  So I
was entertained to see 4011 appear on every banana with the
introduction of PLU numbers.

> ...4077 - white sweet corn, 3616 - Apple (Envy).

Last time I was looking into it, there was a bit of a flap developing
in the PLU domain because apple breeders were developing so many new
and distinct varieties that it was threatening to exhaust the 4-digit
standard.  Dunno.  There are 80 apple varieties in the PLU list on my
HD and 79 tomato varieties.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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