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James Haugen commented on LANG-1060:
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In the financial industry, there are many instances of numbers that have
multiple leading zeros, i.e. account ids and ssns
> NumberUtils.isNumber assumes number starting with Zero is octal
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> Key: LANG-1060
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1060
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: lang.math.*
> Affects Versions: 3.3.2
> Reporter: James Haugen
> Fix For: 3.x
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> The isNumber method assumes, that if the String being passed in doesn't have
> an 'X' at the second char it is an octal number.
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