Has USCF responded? Is there any reason to believe that any meaning at all should be assigned to the ID number? Embedding meaning in Key Fields is a pretty archaic idea in information science.
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Oct 26, 2022
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JJPerry wrote:
Has USCF responded? Is there any reason to believe that any meaning at all should be assigned to the ID number? Embedding meaning in Key Fields is a pretty archaic idea in information science.
The IDs themselves are clearly assigned sequentially and are not random or generated from a hash. The only exceptions are mentioned above.
Huh, thanks for the detailed answer!