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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
I'll take my half-assed, non-professional stab at it since even photon doesn't know. 
When you send a text, I believe you send the following info:
(flag request to transfer data... data transfer begin, address of destination, MESSAGE, end data transfer)
Inside of address of destination, it is of coarse sent in some binary code (1011) from your cell phone antenna to a cell phone base station. During transfer, there are sometimes environmental factors that cause bit errors, so instead of sending 1011, you might end up sending 101 0. I think the bit error rate most cell phone makers target for is 1/1000. |
This does seem plausible, however 7 is 111 and 9 is 1001, although if they store the entire number as one 32 bit field (or 8 bits for area code, 8 for exchange and 16 for the last 4 digits) then there are alot more possiblities that could cause this to occur, theoretically at least.