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[robinbloke]

As of January 1st 2005 a standard was set for numbering retail items. Any item sold anywhere for tracking around the world.
It's a fourteen digit standard, of which the industry uses 13 at already, with provision for another factor of ten more.

Fourteen digits.
Thats 100,000,000,000,000.
One hundred million million different products possibly available, of which we already use, produce and sell 10 million million distinct items.

Blimey.

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[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

It's a gross simplification, yes; since retailers won't use their entire allocation for the section they have. Plus the check digit, aye.

It's still pantsloads.