Re: Metcard Logic

["John Wayman" <bushwalker@email.msn.com>]

Metcard Stock is delivered in either ascending or descending order.

Machine stock is probably in descending order while tickets for manual issue
are probably in ascending order.

Distribution appears to be ad hoc, so the stock is probably mixed up on a
regular basis!


Cheers


John Wayman
Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote in message
<6kgcfn$8f3$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>...
>I bought 5 daily tickets from the machine at Melb Central
>I look at the ticket number (on front) and the issue time:
>
>time:    ticket number:
>7:45      28593206
>7:45      28593205
>7:46      28593204
>7:46      28593203
>7:47      28593202
>
>Now, that was the order I bought them and the times back
>this up.
>
>So why do the ticket numbers decrease?
>
>Metcard Logic (I don't think there is any logic at all)?
>
>Chris Gordon
>mailto:cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au
>http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~cmgord
>