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by johngladtj 444 days ago
Leading zeros are not extraneous and should not be removed though
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ziml77 444 days ago
For numbers they are extraneous, for strings of digits they are not.
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wruza 444 days ago
They are never extraneous, cause no automatic calculation process produces them. If they are there, it's intentional.
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otikik 444 days ago
Aren't they exactly the definition of "extraneous"?
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