American regulators have said a random code will reduce confusion caused by mergers and acquisitions.

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As a bonus, the random code's continuous signal provides precise information about the time.

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The random 18-digit code plus two check digits will have a four-digit prefix added and it will have intelligence in it.

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When your computer boots up, it spends an interminable amount of time heaving some 30 million lines of operating code from the hard drive onto its main memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory).

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