ATD: "against the day"

[rich]

nope, the publisher assisgns the ISBN according to certain rules--digits
correspond to country of publication, e.g.

by the way the X in the ISBN represents the number 10
rich


On 7/21/06, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I thought that Library of Congress assigned the ISBN.
>
> I don't think that it's like a vanity plate where you can choose your own.
>
> On 7/21/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Now we're down on the ISBN number, even?  Man ...
> >
> > --- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Has no one noticed, yet, the interesting binary
> > > sequence within the new book's ISBN number?
> > >
> > > 159420120X
> > >
> > > I wonder why the five is the second digit.  And how
> > > curious:  420.  What a  stoner P is!
> >
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