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Message:: [QUOTE="Notaphylic_C, post: 26259491, member: 130786"]I believe the idea of "bookends" is a very casual term which has been incorrectly formalized & abused over the last couple decades. We used to casually say I found a radar, plus its "bookends" like this note here:[ATTACH]1677408[/ATTACH] What I meant was I found the radar plus the previous & successive #'s or 2447441 & 2447443 (or bookends). Although I meant no harm, this kind of downgrading the term "bookend" to something less significant actually would erode the original intent. I suspect that the term was originally intended to mean 2 truly special numbers like 0999999, 1000000 & 1000001 (with the 0999999 binary & 1000001 radar actually being more appropriate bookends for the Million # note).[/QUOTE]