Maia Davies` Blogging World

it is conceivably possible–but arguably extremely unlikely–that someone, some group of people, or even some sinister force influenced the standards process so as to make the representation for “6″ look as much like the synch marks as possible. On the right hand side of a barcode , the digit “6″ is represented by something that does bear a resemblence to the synch marks, and this has occasionally led some hunters to exclaim that all barcodes contain embedded within them “the number of the mobile barcode scanners“. These are not in fact representations of a digit, but are rather merely synchronization marks that help barcode-reading equipment recognize that it is in fact looking at a barcode and help it determine the width of a mark.

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at 8:34 am and is filed under Technology.