On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:25:52PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: >On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:47:23AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: >> Contiguity becomes important when you're doing things like generating >> invoice numbers. >I've been told that before, but I've never understood why.
So that, when you're audited, the auditors can say "yes, we have a contiguous series, therefore you have not 'lost' an invoice". Roger