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I wonder how this is possible when there are only one billion combinations of digits.


There are only around 330 million Americans and about 5 million born/immigrated each year. 1 billion possibilities will be enough for about 100 more years. Presumably sometime before then we can replace or update the system (or worst case add one more digit).




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