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SubjectRe: Migrating to larger numbers
Guest section DW wrote:
>
> > And so how do you distinguish between (0,2000) and (7,208)?
>
> I do not.
>
> (But (0,2000) is not normalized and hence would not normally occur.)
>

"Normalized"? We need to support more than 255 anonymous devices. I
believe your basic idea is good, but the only possible escape number is
~0, not 0.

-hpa

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