The inventor of the ATM, John Shepherd-Barron, can tell you:
“Over the kitchen table, she [the inventors’ wife] said she could only remember four figures, so because of her, four figures became the world standard.”
Luckily, she wasn’t able to remember 8 or 10 digits.
(via Bruce Schneier)
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