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Under the systems implemented July 1, each of the University's nearly 100,000 cash accounts is identified by a unique 33-digit code. Prior to that date, those same accounts were identified with only 14 digits...
...Users who deal with the codes daily say they are hard to memorize. They take longer to type. And they are easy to botch. Correcting one typo in the 33-digit code can take hours of fact checking and backtracking...
...Whenever I now give anyone a 33-digit account number, I assume that there is a good chance of it being mistranscribed, which will result in at least an hour of administrative work to get it corrected," wrote Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman in an e-mail message...
...When I first came here I couldn't believe the 33-digit codes," says Nicola A. Sullivan, assistant director of finance for chemistry and earth and planetary sciences. "It could be compressed, but most of the number string is repetitive...
...project directors once rattled off 14-digit codes with ease, and some say with time, they'll be able to do the same with 33 digits...