Episode 164: Are We Going to Run Out of Credit Cards?

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about how credit card numbers are generated and whether or not we will run out of them.

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• Conor Hoekstra
• Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2024-01-04
Date Released: 2024-01-12

• Acquired Podcast S10E5: Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
• Acquired Podcast S10E6: Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)
• Acquired Podcast S13E3: Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)
• Acquired Podcast: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
• Quora: Will we run out of credit card numbers?
• Quora: How do credit card companies avoid assigning conflicting numbers to different customers?
• The Luhn Algorithm

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