Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

What's the highest ARG ID?

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    The images we get to classify are 10-character strings in the format ARGnnnnnnn, where n is either a digit (i.e. 0 to 9) or a lower-case letter (i.e. a to z). Assuming all 36 characters are used, and the ID sequence starts at 0, goes to 9, then a, to z - and that positions are filled from the right, then there will be 36 images beginning with ARG000000 (six leading zeros), 1296 beginning with ARG00000 (five leading zeros), 46,656 with ARG0000 (four leading zeros), and 1,679,616 with ARG000 (three leading zeros).

    As there are only ~170,000 images (42jkb wrote this somewhere, in some Help post/thread, I think), the highest ID will begin ARG0002n, right?

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