On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:26:17 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: > >InN order to make it sortable lexicographically just one operation is >required: any and all short, less that three-digit, byte values need >to be padded out on the left to three digits with zeros. > Be quite careful doing that. I once did that for legibility, and discovered that some system interfaces treat numbers with leading zeros as octal. Ugh!
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