Re: Metcard Logic

[paul@xenu.ee.mu.oz.au (Paul Dwerryhouse)]

cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au (Christopher_Martin GORDON) writes:

>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?

I'd imagine that government plans to shut the whole system down after
about 28 million tickets ;)



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