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Nothin but a Number

By |January 2nd, 2024|Categories: Everything Else|

I remember feeling a little bit silly starting the invoice numbers for Malaga Corp. (dba Communications Team) at A100000. I wanted to make sure I never ran out of numbers, and if 999,999 invoices didn't take care of our needs I added the A to give us over 25 million possible invoice numbers. 😅 Well, we'll never get to the B's much less 999,999. But, amazingly to me, we've gotten past  invoice number [...]

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