The single most important number in our lives is arguably the telephone number. It’s the number we give to potential dates and prospective business partners; it’s the number we can recite anytime,
anywhere. In some nations, telephone numbers are auctioned off because of their
symbolic value, with ”666 6666″ going for over $400,000 in Qatar and 8888 8888 bringing in $200,000 in Hong Kong.
In other places, whole towns identify themselves by their geographic phone code. In the Netherlands, soccer fans speak of “those people in 010 or 020,”
which are codes for arch rivals Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
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