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No it's not...it's because they're two digit LED dot matrix displays, they're always used in areas with maximum 80km/h speed limits and doesn't really need any more than that. They can't display numbers higher than 99 due to their config, but will still flash at you for speeding. It is not an intentional decision specifically to avoid situations like this.
No, they were three digit before multiple incidents involving high scores. The newer models are two digit only. No flashing happen above 100 km/h either.
I have never in my 20 years of driving seen one with more than two digits, and I (unfortunately) have driven by them with +100km/h before and they absolutely flash at you (without showing numbers). I am fairly reluctant to believe your statements given my own experience.
I'd doubt this is anything approaching universal, but where I am there definitely were three digit signs in the early aughts, which now appear to have all been replaced with two digit ones. I don't know if this was for cost purposes or the proposed "high score" reason.
There was one right in front of the police station in the town I lived in back in the day, which was a full dot matrix display and didn't even have discrete digit slots. It could display other messages if it wasn't in speed readout mode. I passed it at about a buck twenty one night and discovered that it topped out at 99. It's the first one I recall seeing that didn't have a third digit, but then they became the norm pretty shortly thereafter.
The ones that are popping up like mushrooms around here now fit within the footprint of a normal speed limit sign and they have a dual color LED matrix that flashes a frowny face at you if you're 0.01 MPH over the specified speed...