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9. Here is a fabulous example
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 07:08 AM
Apr 2020

A judicial district includes some addresses in Fairfield Ct. Someone finally figured out that no one from Fairfield had been called for jury duty in more than six years. The program for city address only permitted 8 letters. Fairfield has nine letters. The ninth letter, the letter d, was considered an entry for the next variable “deceased.” Any entry in that column was scored as meaning the person was deceased. That it was a d was a coincidence, if it was R it would be coded as deceased too. Blank you’re alive. Any entry other than blank and you’re dead and don’t get called up for jury duty.Everyone with an address in Fairfield, the only town with a name longer that 8 letters in that judicial district, was dead. According to the computer program.

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