Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
It's just a number - why try to assign some special significance to it.
Just as meaningless , it is 1 less than 2000000 in octal
Because people are not robots and find it fun to do stuff like that, like what BA have done with aircraft registrations.
I'd like to think someone went out of their way to get this number for BA, in the days before the bean counters ran the asylum.