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Article #2250Re: ISBN numbers
From: Niels Elgaard Larsen
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 1990 17:15
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 1990 17:15
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psrc@cbnewsl.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>The NIH class library book (published in the U.K.) didn't have a hyphen
>between the publisher and book number, much to my surprise.
The hyphens isn't significant. The system is designed so the
interpretation is unique. This means that you always know what parts of
the ISBN is the language number and the publishers number.
Ie. since Denmark has the number 87, there can be no language number 8
or with the prefix 87.
--
Niels Elgaard Larsen |
Institute of Datalogy, | Long before Europe
University of Copenhagen | became the focus of world attension,
E-mail: elgaard@freja.diku.dk | it was a focus for The Economist
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