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Subject: Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats
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On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:01:09 +0200, Antoon Pardon
<antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> declaimed the following:

>
>But as far as I know, "significant digits" is not the accepted term for the
>width of the representation when you print a number with added zeroes in front of it.
>
	From my 70s COBOL class -- that would likely be described as a
"zero-filled" PIC clause.
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