Shouldn't questions be numbered (given an unique id)?

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With a unique id for a question one can call attention to the previous questions with ease and also hyper text it.

kmm · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-23 12:27:45Z

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They are. For example, your meta question right here is #494: meta.biology.stackexchange.com/questions/494

Here's biology.SE #1: biology.stackexchange.com/questions/1

answered Sep 21, 2013 at 20:05

kmm

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$\begingroup$ Where is the question number shown? It is not visible to me. $\endgroup$
– Ram Manohar M
Sep 23, 2013 at 2:36
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$\begingroup$ Look at the url of questions. The format is: biology.stackexchange.com/questions/"Question_number"/"Title" $\endgroup$
– fileunderwater
Sep 23, 2013 at 12:28
$\begingroup$ SE autoconverted my links. It's the number after biology.stackexchange.com/questions/ $\endgroup$
– kmm
Sep 23, 2013 at 12:28
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$\begingroup$ You can also shorten the URLs to things like http://biology.stackexchange.com/q/1 to save space. $\endgroup$
– hairboat
Sep 23, 2013 at 15:26
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$\begingroup$ Answers also have their own unique IDs: http://biology.stackexchange.com/a/59 $\endgroup$
– hairboat
Sep 23, 2013 at 15:27
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$\begingroup$ "Last thing a deep sea fish will discover is salt water" The simple answer should have been look at the URL as suggested by fileunderwater. Things need not be obvious for those who seek the answer. $\endgroup$
– Ram Manohar M
Sep 26, 2013 at 17:25
$\begingroup$ You can click share under the post. The last number is your user ID and can be omitted if you like. $\endgroup$
– user3970
Jan 12, 2014 at 7:40

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