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Wouldn’t something zero padded like that be typed as a string not a number?
by adolph 4y ago
Wouldn’t something zero padded like that be typed as a string not a number?
- Waterluvian 4y agoIt still works! 1 gets appended to the string. The only downside is that recent IDs are 8 billion characters long. People are clever though and just began using the length of their string as their personal ID.
- pc86 4y agoNow this is the kind of pedantry I come here for.
- adolph 4y agoIt’s all fun ‘n games until someone treats something like an MRN (Medical Record Number) as if it were a number. Edit: Also, would you mind changing that statement to not leave a preposition shooting off the end like Wile E Coyote?
- JadeNB 4y ago> Edit: Also, would you mind changing that statement to not leave a preposition shooting off the end like Wile E Coyote? This is the kind of pedantry up with which I will not put.