• zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    Sure. No one ever in this entire world ever did a int(“0200”), because it is insane to represent numbers as actual numbers. I am so glad that military invented a standard working with any algorithm.

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      2 hours ago

      I mean, I hear you, but to be fair, I think the military has been using that kind of a timing convention since before computing even really existed.

      … We did more or less invent modern computers, initially, to compute artillery ranging tables.

      I’m pretty sure that predates even the concept of … a string vs int data type.