[comp.dcom.telecom] An Unusual Way to Write Your Phone Number

scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) (02/28/91)

The recent discussion of how to write your phone number brings to mind
something I've been meaning to ask for a while now.

Several years ago, I read a message on a BBS from a person who wrote
his phone number as some incredibly long string of digits (i.e. much
MUCH longer than the normal ten digit telephone number). Although I
didn't actually test it out at the time, he claimed that by dialing
this incredibly long string of digits you would, in fact, reach his
phone. He found it amusing to give this long version out to people who
asked him for his phone number. The cobwebs of time (or perhaps those
of my mind ;-) have obscured the details of the algorithm used and
how/why it worked. Can anyone provide some additional details on how
to accomplish this?

Much obliged.