>From: Max Bian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:09:26 -0800 (PST)
>As for the ID space, it is interesting math question. If Palm takes all lower
>letters, 3rd party will have 36^4 - 26^4 = 1,043,649 unique creator IDs to
>use.
>If there is 100,000 developers out there, it means only 10 IDs/developer. So,
>reserve yours today. :)
Ooh, bad math!
An approximation, given the rule that any creator ID you or I register
must contain one non-lowercase character is:
62*62*62*36 = 8,579,808
This calculation just uses upper and lower case alphas, plus numerics.
If you compute in characters other than alpha and numeric, then
the number is probably well over 10M
Also most "developers" will never register more than one creator ID.
So assuming only 10K active developers registering more than one
creator ID, that is an average of over 1,000 available per active developer.
Roger Stringer
Marietta Systems, Inc
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