Re: Reasonable to propose stability policy on numeric type = decimal

From: Robert Abel (freakrob@googlemail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2010 - 00:13:23 CDT

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    On 2010/07/29 06:33, karl williamson wrote:
    > Is it the case that a sequence of just these characters, without any
    > intervening characters, and not adjacent to the special characters you
    > mention always mean a place-value decimal number?
    One common counter-example would be 七五三 (Shichi-Go-San
    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shichi-Go-San>), literally this could be
    interpreted as 753, however it refers to the ages of the kids
    participating in this traditional rite of passing into middle childhood.

    Robert



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