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Looking for a replacement all in one wireless printer. Any recommendations trying to get one that’s cheap to buy and cheap to buy ink for? Mainly going to be printing notes for my sons homework


You better get it fast. Only the polymor ones will be legal after March 1st.
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2 hours ago, scmwell said:

Looking for a replacement all in one wireless printer. Any recommendations trying to get one that’s cheap to buy and cheap to buy ink for? Mainly going to be printing notes for my sons homework

Just bought an HP3720. £40 in Currys.  Does the job. 

 

Anyway, onto more pressing matters.  Has  Lovely Ladies of the Winter Olympics thread been started yet?

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1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Anyway, onto more pressing matters.  Has  Lovely Ladies of the Winter Olympics thread been started yet?

They'll all be wrapped up like GloWorms, surely. You'd be as well asking for a Lovely Ladies of the Tehran Markets thread.

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Neither do I


The reason I ask is that a bird I met at a gig appears to have given me a fake phone number, and I was surprised to find out that the number provided is actually a person’s number and not just a dead end.

I consider that there are ten billion possible phone numbers in the U.K. from 07000000000 to 07999999999. If all 60m people have one phone number each that means that there’s only a 1 in 167 chance that a randomly selected 11 digit number starting in 07 will be a phone number.


I also appear to have answered my own question and also disproved your answer.
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18 minutes ago, Donathan said:

If I type 07 into my phone, followed by nine randomly selected digit, what’s the probability that I’ve called an actual phone number?

I spent a drunken night using my shitty landlord's phone to dial random numbers in Moscow and New York. Got through quite often.

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The reason I ask is that a bird I met at a gig appears to have given me a fake phone number, and I was surprised to find out that the number provided is actually a person’s number and not just a dead end.

I consider that there are ten billion possible phone numbers in the U.K. from 07000000000 to 07999999999. If all 60m people have one phone number each that means that there’s only a 1 in 167 chance that a randomly selected 11 digit number starting in 07 will be a phone number.


I also appear to have answered my own question and also disproved your answer.

Aye fair do’s, but you never mentioned you lived in the UK, my calculations were global, so my answer is correct. So so sorry that some bird gave you a random number.
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The reason I ask is that a bird I met at a gig appears to have given me a fake phone number, and I was surprised to find out that the number provided is actually a person’s number and not just a dead end.

I consider that there are ten billion possible phone numbers in the U.K. from 07000000000 to 07999999999. If all 60m people have one phone number each that means that there’s only a 1 in 167 chance that a randomly selected 11 digit number starting in 07 will be a phone number.


I also appear to have answered my own question and also disproved your answer.


In practice though they aren’t producing a real random string of nine digits

And mobile phone numbers are random

If you had to produce a random phone number of the cuff and wanted to make it seem convincing you’d probably give the first part of one number and the second part of another or just swap the last couple of digits of your actual number

If the first few digits after the 7 are from a real phone then it means that the prefix has at least been allocated to a provider

Which improves your chances of the remaining 6 matching


Mind you the same logic applies if you scribbled it down with one digit wrong

So this doesn’t actually tell us much
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