From: Sam Mason (sam@samason.me.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 17 2009 - 12:41:02 CDT
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:14:50PM -0400, John W Kennedy wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Sam Mason wrote:
> > should we also reject the number one when spelled as '00000000001'?
>
> Quite a few programming languages will reject '00000000008'.
You mean languages like C where leading zeros indicate the number is
in octal form? Would 000000000001 be a better example then, something
like:
printf (" 1 + 1 = %i\n, 000000000001 + 00000000001);
or am I missing something else?
-- Sam http://samason.me.uk/
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