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We're gonna need a bigger alphabet

it's base 24. after going from single character alpha to omega, then you introduce the second character: alpha alpha, alpha beta, ...

Use of decimal numbers sounds better all of a sudden for naming the virus variants. :-)

seems the decimals are already currently being used for virus strains: sars-cov1, sars-cov-2...

for variants it could be minor versions such as sars-cov-2.4 but then there may be confusion about them being related sequentially and that one is an "improvement" over the other. :)

That's just differentiating nominal numbers from others [1]. The same is much too common everywhere -- zipcodes, student ID number, etc. I am still missing reason why the suggested base 24 is better. :-)

[1] https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/cardinal-ordinal-nominal....

i'm mostly joking. it's not better, at least not to me.

The said joking is/was good with me. :-)

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