>>> On 10/9/2009 at 9:38 AM, Neale Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > 0605 as an octal number is 389. So 389/100 = 3 when truncated.
And just to be explicit about _why_ it's being interpreted as an octal number, it's because of the leading zero. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
