On Sunday 13 November 2005 06:20, Josh Babcock wrote: > With 26^5 (11881376) possible identifiers You'd think there wouldn't be > any duplicates. Actually, I just checked fix.dat.gz, and it came up with > 70011 entries whether I did a sort -u on it or just counted the entries. > This should mean that there are no dups. What fix were you using? > > Josh
Fixes are only required to be unique on a per country level. Each country is legally allowed to use the same set of identifiers as a neighbouring country although it's not recommended. There are 2158 non-unique fix identifiers in the database out of a total of 70007. Paul _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
