Re: Oh or O?

John Craft Wrote:
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> KoloradoKid Wrote:
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> > early computers were aware of zero and the
> letter O.
>
> Try saving 000000001 as a numeric in an Excel
> spreadsheet, or in a database, and see what
> happens.
>
> Memory and storage space for 1960s-era computers
> was extremely expensive, and there's no reason to
> store leading zeroes. 1, 01, 001, 0000000001,
> and 000000000000000001 all have the same value, so
> why bother?

Why would you save a car #, on which no math is ever going to be done, or should be done for that matter, as a numeric value? Save it as a char string and be done with it. Sounds like a case of an incompetant workman(programmer) blaming his tools-and getting away with it because a computer was a magic boie: the boss didn't know enough to know he was being snowed)

hank