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[–] 58 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

I’d say 3, except that the 3 on the line above has a flat bottom line.

If it’s also missing some dots from the middle, it could be part of the second and third columns of a 2.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I still vote for 3.

    The 7 above is also missing some dots on the right, so there's an entire vertical strip of erased ink. The numbers are up to 5 dots wide, but the existing 3 only has 4 dots on the bottom. It's possible that a fifth is supposed to be there one spot higher, matching the missing number, but it just got clipped by the erased part.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Actually now I am too. The digits all seem to be normally 5 dots wide.

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    I made a comment above explaining why I think it's a monospaced font with each character 5 dots wide, with 2 dots of space between characters. The 1 uses 3 dots and the 0 uses 4, while the period and colon use 2 dots of width. But each of these less than 5-dot-wide characters also is surrounded by more than the typical 2 dots worth of space, proportional to the assumption that each character is assigned 5 dots of width.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    That’s a possibility.

    My other argument, though, is that in 2026 February 28 is the end of a month, while March 28 is a random Saturday.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    BBD (best by date) is going to be 1 year, or some other legally specified number of days, from the date of manufacturing/canning. It can fall on the end of a month, but not intentionally. 28-Mar-2025 was a Friday.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Ah yes, I'd say 2 is the most likely candidate

    Edit: I'm on team 3 now thanks to radix's comment

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