On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:25 AM, bob gailer <bgai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/24/2013 2:09 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > >> Related: I saw a picture the other day on Google+ of an mailing envelope >> whose zip code was written in scientific notation. >> > That;s odd - since ZIP codes are character, not integer, > You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? I've dealt with a disturbing number of programs (some of them from big enough names that you'd think they'd know better) that chose to represent zip codes as integers. You'd think that the fact that some of them have to be zero-filled would be a big clue... but no.
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