From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-09T00:27:34+09:00
Subject: Re: integers with preceding zero don't return as expected?

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Roger Pack wrote:
| 09:02:40 ~ $ irb
|>> 07023
| => 3603
|
|
| Thoughts? Huh?
| -R

Implicit conversion of an octal number to a decimal, looks like.

07023 octal is 3603 decimal.

A leading 0 usually signifies the use of octal, instead of decimal
numbers, so Ruby does the right thing, just not in the way expected.

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