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> The small piles would have 1000 notes in them, which is easy to check in a day.

By the time you could even buy an 8-bit home computer for couple hundred dollars, store all the serial numbers on a floppy and simply search through them once per day

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That would let you check instantly if you had that dollar, but you'd then have difficulty physically finding it.

Create an index. Sort the notes into sets of 1000 and label them, add the label as a column into your Foxpro database.

Most likely scenario, you never look sort through it again. Least likely scenario, you get $30,000 (probably like $280,000 in today's money) to dig through them all one more time.

That would take so much more time than sorting each batch of 1000 notes, and sorted notes let you do your daily check in less than a minute.

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