The Car Talk guys would regularly give out the show's phone number broken in unconventional places, i.e. "Call us at 1-888-CAR-TALK, that's eighteen, eight-eight, twenty-two, seventy-eight, two-fifty-five" or "one-triple-8-double-2-single-7-8-2-double-5" --Michael On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Every real nerd knows that a number with a zero in the front must be in octal, so your number is bogus.
Real nerds will never agree with "Newer languages have been abandoning the prefix 0, as decimal numbers are often represented with leading zeroes"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal
At 05:12 PM 3/10/2015, James Propp wrote:
Or "My zip code at MIT is two thousand one hundred and twenty nine ... with a zero in the front."
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