Timeline for Generate a British numberplate
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| Jun 18, 2021 at 10:02 | answer | added | MarcMush | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 31, 2021 at 18:58 | comment | added | Jonathan Allan | @AndrewLeach true, the point is the doc does not specify. | |
| May 31, 2021 at 17:16 | comment | added | Andrew Leach | @JonathanAllan They can't use 51 twice (the sequence started with that). They could use 50 and 00, which didn't feature at the beginning of the sequence. However, after 99, they are more likely to reverse and go with XXXNNAA where NN is 50 for March 2050. | |
| S May 31, 2021 at 15:47 | history | suggested | Charlie Harding | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Update title to British from UK, as Northern Ireland uses a different scheme
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| May 31, 2021 at 7:40 | comment | added | Olivier Grégoire | As a person living in Brussels, I got to see a lot of British cars while UK was in the EU (because a lot of Brits live(d) in Brussels for the EU), and my best guess about the UK licence plates pattern was that it was fully random and tried to make shortened words/sentences. TIL there actually is a pattern! | |
| May 30, 2021 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackCodeGolf/status/1398972476101730307 | ||
| May 30, 2021 at 5:54 | comment | added | pxeger | @JonathanAllan huh, I guess it's ambiguous. I suspect the DVLA will just stop at 99, to be honest (maybe I'll submit a complaint...) | |
| May 30, 2021 at 0:25 | answer | added | Axuary | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 29, 2021 at 22:11 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 29, 2021 at 21:13 | answer | added | emanresu A | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 29, 2021 at 20:16 | comment | added | Jonathan Allan |
The doc just says the "pattern" will continue - a pattern which certainly fits is to alternate between adding 50 and subtracting 49 every six months (and keeping the trailing two digits), this would give the end as: March 2049 – Aug 2049 49 Sept 2049 – Feb 2050 99 March 2050 - Aug 2050 50 Sept 2050 - Feb 2051 00 March 2051 - Aug 2051 51
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| May 29, 2021 at 20:03 | answer | added | Nick Kennedy | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 29, 2021 at 19:45 | answer | added | Neil | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 29, 2021 at 19:40 | history | edited | pxeger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
add missing final one
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| May 29, 2021 at 19:39 | comment | added | pxeger |
@JonathanAllan I'm sure. See page 6 of this document, adding an appropriate multiple of 10 to each. Although I've just noticed I've missed out the last possible option (March '51 - August '51, 01) - I don't think it's too late to add that one in since all the answers are apparently wrong already (I don't think the Retina one is, actually)
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| May 29, 2021 at 19:27 | comment | added | Jonathan Allan | Are you sure about the last few age identifiers? (None of the current three answers match in February 2050.) | |
| May 29, 2021 at 17:44 | answer | added | Neil | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 29, 2021 at 15:09 | answer | added | user100690 | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 29, 2021 at 14:45 | answer | added | Arnauld | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 29, 2021 at 14:33 | history | edited | pxeger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 41 characters in body
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| May 29, 2021 at 14:20 | history | edited | pxeger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 3 characters in body
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| May 29, 2021 at 14:08 | comment | added | pxeger | Sandbox | |
| May 29, 2021 at 14:07 | history | asked | pxeger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |