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Originally Posted by jTheUmp
Computer programmer checking in:
05 and 5 (or 0 and 00) are equivalent only if the uniform number is stored as an Integer. If they're stored as a String, 05 and 5 are not identical.
About the only real reason you'd store uniform number as an Integer is to make sorting easier... sorting Integers in numerical order (as you would expect in a box score) is easier than sorting Strings in numerical order... with Strings, the default order will be something like this:
0
00
02
03
1
01
12
14
2
22
25
3
31
32
34
etc.
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And the sorting is why I assumed they store the digits as integers. Could be wrong. Always hated programming.