Giving Contact Info on Shabbat

Question

Is one permitted to verbally exchange phone numbers on Shabbat to a non-Jew? Is this considered conducting business?

The Jew did not write or ask the other person to write down their number, rather out of their own volition, the non-Jew wrote the number which had been said to them.

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  1. The Just Ask! - AskTheRabbi.org Team

    Even if it is possible to say that it is not forbidden to do so because of the Laws of Shabbat, I think that it would be forbidden to do it because of what is called “Uvdin d’Chol” – doing something that is “weekday behavior.”

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