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What does this mean: No one (00/00/0000)?

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I find this here: No one (00/00/0000) . What does it mean? Rizosome (talk) 04:45, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. --184.144.97.125 (talk) 04:53, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
No one was born on 00/00/0000. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:51, 31 December 2021 (UTC) [reply]
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Heard over the loudspeaker at Liverpool Street Station tonight:

"The train at platform nine is the 17-oh-oh service to Ipswich."

I've never heard that before, but I have heard of "00" gauge (although I don't know what it means). 2A00:23A8:4015:F500:8CF9:8857:ED42:5830 (talk) 17:56, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OO gauge (usually not '00') is a scale used in model railways in the UK, corresponding to approximately 1:76. It superseded O gauge, approximately 1:45 (not a train departure time). Gauge and scale relate to different concepts. See also 1 gauge, 2 gauge, etc. MinorProphet (talk) 17:42, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]