Darren New wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> That's like predicting who's going to get a winning lottery ticket 
>> based on knowing when & where they buy tickets, isn't it?
> 
> Why? SSNs were started before computers were invented, so each office 
> got a batch of prefixes and an algorithm for using them. You couldn't do 
> the "allocate sequentially" algorithm when Social Security was invented.

Why can't you allocate sequentially by hand?  It's not like counting is 
hard.

"OK, Washington State is going to get the batch 542-XX-XXXX."

"Alright, now the Olympia SSA Office gets numbers 542-00-XXXX through 
542-29-XXXX, Seattle gets 542-30-XXXX through 542-49-XXXX, Spokane gets 
542-50-XXXX through 542-69-XXXX, ..."

...Chambers

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