Determining number of publishers by check numbers

possible?

[loanuniverse]

I got the May check today and I am preparing the deposit slip to deposit at the bank tomorrow, but something just ocurred to me. Would it be possible to estimate the number of publishers getting a check every month by substracting the April check number from the May one?

I understand that it would undercount those not getting paid this month, and batches are probably non sequential, but the number seems plausible.

</rambling>

[Dpeper]

hmm you never know... it would work if we were talking about my check book. You would probally get a rough estimate.

[7_Driver]

Interesting idea - I guess if we were all getting roughly the same number then it probably works.

I wonder if posting it would break the Terms and Conditions. Probably!

Seems a bit less than I'd have expected - but plausible nevertheless.

[john_k]

If the check numbers were ONLY issued for paying AdSense publishers, and if they were always done in the same order, then you could tell how many publishers got a check. That doesn't take into the issue of checks issued to different countries (are they drawn on the same account, and are the numbers in-step with each other or independent of each other).

I would guess that the majority of sites that actually have AdSense ads running on them don't qualify for a monthly check though.