Hell I *am* a technical person and I would dearly love for a database that made it as easy to create a simple database as it is to create a spreadsheet.
Are you sure you are "a technical person"?
and there are no countervailing examples in TV fiction
How about Walter White (Breaking Bad) or Gregory House MD (House MD)? I'd say they are intellectual heroes (or anti-heros in the case of WW).
Interestingly House also has some of the social issues that are represented in TBBT but he's never belittled by the plot/script, far from it.
What happens if there are 10 times as many people with cars whose plate ends with a 'T' than those that end with a 'U'
The current UK license plate system, introduced in 2001, has two non-random groups of characters*. If these characters were at the end of the plate (they aren't but they could have been) then you could easily end up with a disproportionate number of cars whose plate ends in the same character.
* The plate starts with a two letter area code followed by a two-digit age identifier, which changes twice a year.
On another note, the article mentions there being 36 possible 'last characters' of a number plate. That may be the case in the USA but in the UK certain letters aren't used on plates (IQ) because they are easily confused with other letters/numbers (10) when being read in a hurry.
If you think any of this information is incorrect then please feel free to post your version of the facts, otherwise...
fcuk it, why am I feeding a troll with a 7 digit UID!?!
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