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| | | (...) Precisely. It's not guaranteed to be unique and it has business meaning. Now, clearly, the underlying DB implementation should index on that column because we are likely to be doing a lot of lookups, but that is an optimization/implementation (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | | | | Re: wishing upon a star —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) It's known to be not unique, there's a many-to-many relationship between TLG numbers and unique mold-forms. That is, the same number has been used for different parts (at least, different versions of parts), and different numbers have been (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | | | | | Re: wishing upon a star —Tamyra Teed
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| | | | (...) For anyone that might not know this, Mold numbers are not unique. A mold is setup for all the parts and it makes more than 1 piece at a time. If you take the 2x4 brick mold, it could possibly do 8 bricks at a time which means each brick in the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | | | | | Re: wishing upon a star —Robert Munafo
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| | | | (...) It sounds like you're talking about the mold quality control numbers. On most LEGO parts that a large enough concealed surface, you find three numbers -- two vary from part to part for the reasons you describe. These are usually one or two (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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