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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