>>> 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

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