I assume they were talking about in the past. Like a decade ago or earlier. Though 6 digit ones selling for thousands still seems a bit much unless they were appealing rounded numbers. 5 digits for thousands of dollars was def a thing in the mid 00s.
Thank you! This is actually incredibly helpful in putting this into context. Reading your original posts, I somehow expected to see 5 to 6 digit numbers, as opposed to the 4 to 5 digits that you quoted.
If they had only used 4 digits, then in eight thousand years or so, longbets.org would have felt really stupid about having to hire a historical programming re-enactor to show us how our ancestors used to adjust the width of a database column.
But luckily they used 5 digits. 5 digits should be enough for anyone.
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