On Friday 04 June 2010 11:55:55 am John Dlugosz wrote: > Those things really happen when writing in assembly language. I recall > having to write "numbers" that only begin with a decimal digit, so "a > fish" is a word, and "0ah fish" is a number. In C and C++, "a" is a word > and "0xa" is a number.
But I'm not talking about programming languages, just common everyday uses by people who have it as their primary (not secondary) system of numbers.