Re: Leading Zeros?
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- Subject: [mg54340] Re: Leading Zeros?
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 02:31:40 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi, why do you give only three leading zeros ? There are a infinite number of leading zeros and you should type all, if you wish to have it. When you have entered the infinite number of leading zeros, there will be a Mathematica version that can deal with it. Regards Jens "AES" <siegman at stanford.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:cv2dmf$2ef$1 at smc.vnet.net... >A quick test seems to show that if I enter as an input line > > y = {001,002,003}; Print[y//FullForm]; > > the output is List[1,2,3]. > > Are the leading zeros gone forever? Does Mathematica have an official > policy on capturing or storing leading zeros? >