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This is unrelated, but how did Google manage to produce such awful URLs? Is this just a base-26 encoded GUID? If so, they could've saved a few characters: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0xED11C880FA5611DDA6040...

Not that this is something you'd want to do in the first place, because it's hideous.




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