CF-xxx vs. C-Fxxx

That wasn't the question you asked.

Jim



"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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In the base that Canada uses for aircraft registration, when are letters
numbers?

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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That wasn't the question you asked.


Context.

Steve, ya screwed up asking the question. You can't be the invincible SPMc
without admitting a typing lapse, can ya?

Either admit to a lapse in questioning or affirm your claim to
infallibility. Your choice. You COULD possibly be elected the next Pope.

Jim



"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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That wasn't the question you asked.


Context.

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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Steve, ya screwed up asking the question.


Did I? Please explain how.



You can't be the invincible SPMc without admitting a typing lapse, can ya?

Either admit to a lapse in questioning or affirm your claim to
infallibility. Your choice. You COULD possibly be elected the next Pope.



Lapse in questioning? Upon reviewing the thread the question still makes
perfect sense, unless one ignores the context in which it was asked. Could
you cite this "claim to infallibility", I don't recall making any such
claim.

("RST Engineering" wrote)
Either admit to a lapse in questioning or affirm your claim to
infallibility. Your choice. You COULD possibly be elected the next Pope.


Great. Another Wisconsin Pope.
http://words.yovo.info/img/panzerfaust-s.jpg


Montblack

On 2005-10-08, Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
In the base that Canada uses for aircraft registration, when are letters
numbers?

All of them, as previously explained.

(As an aside to all the pedantry that's bouncing around this thread, I
think you must realise that 'numbers' is just an American figure of
speech; after all, in the US plane registrations are colloquially known
as 'N numbers', even though quite frequently the last one or two digits
is a letter, and is probably not intended to be base 36! In most other
countries, we just colloquially know our registrations as 'G-reg' or
'D-reg' or.. etc. without even mentioning the word 'numbers'. In this
part of the world, car registration plates are colloquially known as 'number
plates' even though they don't just have numbers, well, unless you live
in Guernsey).

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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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All of them, as previously explained.


Previous "explanations" were out of context.



(As an aside to all the pedantry that's bouncing around this thread, I
think you must realise that 'numbers' is just an American figure of
speech; after all, in the US plane registrations are colloquially known
as 'N numbers', even though quite frequently the last one or two digits
is a letter, and is probably not intended to be base 36!


In what part of America is 'numbers' just an American figure of speech? US
plane registrations are colloquially known as 'N numbers' because they are
predominantly numbers. Many are exclusively numbers.

On 2005-10-10, Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
In what part of America is 'numbers' just an American figure of speech?i

The United States Of.

US
plane registrations are colloquially known as 'N numbers' because they are
predominantly numbers. Many are exclusively numbers.

But not all. People still call their plane registration 'their N-number'
when it's something like N23AD even though the last two characters are
letters.

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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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The United States Of.


That's not the case. Where did you get your information?



But not all. People still call their plane registration 'their N-number'
when it's something like N23AD even though the last two characters are
letters.


You still don't understand. Every US registration has numbers, that's why
they call them N-numbers.

Dylan Smith wrote:

US
plane registrations are colloquially known as 'N numbers' because they are
predominantly numbers. Many are exclusively numbers.

But not all. People still call their plane registration 'their N-number'
when it's something like N23AD even though the last two characters are
letters.

N-numbers, tail numbers, or (for cars) license plate numbers. For that
matter, driver's license number. It seems that most identification
codes, whether they be purely numeric or alphanumeric are referred to as
"numbers". Therefore, letters are numbers when they are part of an
identification code, et al.


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