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					Originally Posted by  Ghoulish Delight
					 
				 
				...8 digits would be fewer than 100 million phone numbers... 
			
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 A LOT fewer: eight digits would be 10 million (10,000,000). Dropping all numbers starting with "0" and "1" (you can't [under our current system] have those as the first number of a phone number) and you're down to 8 million.