How can barcodes have a small amount of squares and we still don’t run out of barcodes?

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How can barcodes have a small amount of squares and we still don’t run out of barcodes?

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Bar codes are just a computer-readable version of the number that’s written below the barcode. So there’s as many possible barcodes as there are numbers with that many digits.

UPC codes are 12 digits long, so there’s about 1 trillion possible codes.

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