On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:47:43PM +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Except of course to anyone familiar with mathematics in the last, oh, > five hundred years or so. Mathematics has used a positional system for > numbers for centuries now: leading zeroes have been insignificant, just > like trailing zeroes after the decimal point: > > 9 = 09 = 009 = 9.0 = 9.00 = 0009.000 etc.
Dude, seriously. No one ever *uses* leading zeros in the context of mathematics except in 2nd grade math class. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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