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Reply #47: Actually I think using periods (or dots) in phone numbers is less confusing
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Sun May-08-11 07:15 PM
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47. Actually I think using periods (or dots) in phone numbers is less confusing |
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Parenthesis and hyphens can sometimes make the adjacent numbers difficult to read, espcially when it is written by a sloppy hand. Using dots really removes the ambiguity, imho.
And structurally, phone numbers and IP addresses are so similar as to warrant the same dividing digit.
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