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TheJeeronian t1_jaeu0uw wrote

Seven digits gives us 10,000,000 possible numbers. Area codes add three more digits, so that's 10 million people max per area code, with 1,000 possible area codes, and an additional 10 country codes.

100,000,000,000 possible codes.

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FrozenKyrie OP t1_jaeu66a wrote

oh wow that's alot

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XsNR t1_jaews2x wrote

Even with that, countries do recycle numbers when they go out of service. Sometimes you'll get texts or calls from people's contacts who previously owned your number.

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