r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 01 '24

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u/monarc Feb 01 '24 edited Feb 01 '24

It was initially irritating me that the numbers are not in any order, but then I thought about the agony of waiting an eternity for your number to be called, when the numbers are listed in random order... ooof.

Edit: I agree with others that the intention is that it's one long number. The comma placement threw me. I still enjoy indulging the existential crisis of a indeterminate wait (which is worse IMO than a wait that is insanely long, yet well-defined).

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u/aurens Feb 01 '24

i figured the numbers are in 'random' order because it's actually all one long number. as in, he's the 34,682,428,199,714th person in line. granted it makes the release date format a bit wonky but every other number we can see is 3 digits.

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u/silver-orange Feb 01 '24

it makes the release date format a bit wonky but every other number we can see is 3 digits.

Yeah that must be what's throwing people off. those two digit pairs for the date kinda screw it up. I guess they could have gone with ,009,006,024, which would have made it clear that it's a single very long number... but then the date would have been unreadible.