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Retra on Jan 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses

People really need to learn the difference between ordinal, cardinal, and nominal numbers... And what 'semantics' are.

onion2k on Jan 19, 2015 [–]

Are ZIP codes actually number? I'd say they're really numeric strings, and should be handled as strings.

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