Re: Leading Zeros?
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- Subject: [mg54346] Re: [mg54319] Leading Zeros?
- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 02:31:46 -0500 (EST)
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Leading zeroes in a number are meaningless, so why would you WANT them stored?
No, they're not stored.
Bobby
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:30:40 -0500 (EST), AES <siegman at stanford.edu> wrote:
> A quick test seems to show that if I enter as an input line
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> y = {001,002,003}; Print[y//FullForm];
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> the output is List[1,2,3].
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> Are the leading zeros gone forever? Does Mathematica have an official
> policy on capturing or storing leading zeros?
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