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Indexing an age over 130

MaxEntropy
MaxEntropy ✭
September 2, 2023 edited September 30, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

Should I put in 130 or leave it blank?

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  • erutherford
    erutherford ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 3, 2023 Answer ✓

    Since the max age is 130, mark it blank.

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  • BraydenGraves
    BraydenGraves ✭✭✭
    September 3, 2023

    Are you sure you read this right? I can't read the image myself, but I did a quick google search and it seems that the ability to survive to 130 years is only theoretical. The closest on record is 122 years.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 3, 2023

    No, that's not likely to be the actual age, but yes, that is what it actually says. It's handily underlined in the screenshot: "ciento treinta i siete", which Mr. Google assures me does, indeed, mean 137. (It should apparently correctly be spelled "ciento treinta y siete", but it sounds the same either way.)

    I don't know why the indexing field has a hard limit like this. Do they want us to index what's written or not?

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  • BraydenGraves
    BraydenGraves ✭✭✭
    September 5, 2023

    @Julia Szent-Györgyi In all fairness, they probably never expected the limit to be reached for a real index. Maybe it's to keep people from screwing around?

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