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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seeing as just five alphanumeric symbols gets you over 60 million variations, exactly how the hell did they fuck up that hard

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

60M total but divided among 40 counties makes 1.5M variations per county and the capital city (which is its own county, like Berlin) went over that.

I looked it up and Bucharest actually has only a 1.7M population so... I think it's understandable that nobody expected an almost 1:1 person-to-car ratio. Exactly why and how they reached that crazy ratio I have no idea. ๐Ÿ˜†

Told you it's a crazy rabbit hole.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ah Ok, so the mistake was allotting per county.