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Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string?

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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> myString = "  33";
> window.alert(Number(myString)); // alerts 3
> 
> myString = "33  ";
> window.alert(Number(myString)); // alerts 3

I do hope that it alerts 33, otherwise my to-do list for the ES Matrix would 
get even longer ;-)
 
>> And, of course, those of the digits i v I V etc. which are in UniCode
>> 0000-FFFF, and IIRC various even stranger digits, including \u261D.
> 
> Aren't those referred to as "Roman numerals"? "Digits" are any of the
> Arabic figures of 1 through 9 and 0.

In theory, a digit is any symbol in a positional numeral system (from the 
ancient Latin word for "finger"; BTW, as I have learned recently while 
studying IEEE 754 again, the word for using such a system is *algorism*(!)), 
which Roman numerals are not (it is an additive system instead).  That 
includes, but is not limited to, decimal digits.  (There are hexadecimal 
digits A to F, for example.)

However, without further qualification "digit" is commonly understood, 
indeed, to be limited to those ten symbols which in Europe evolved from 
Arabic writing (through Al-Khwārizmī, ca. 780-850 CE), but originated in 
India (the digit and number zero in particular, probably starting from 
Aryabhata ca. 476–550 CE going back to Jain mathematics ca. 400 BCE; BTW, 
there was a fascinating BBC documentation about this years ago – I have 
forgotten the title).

The latter is what I meant here.  (The following sentences of my posting did 
expand on possible exceptions for hexadecimal digits with Number(…).)


HTH

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how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? skrite <shawn@skrite.net> - 2012-11-16 09:12 -0800
  Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-17 07:10 +1100
    Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-17 13:51 +1100
    Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-17 15:37 +0100
      Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 08:28 +1100
        Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-18 01:02 +0100
          Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 15:40 +1100
  Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-11-17 08:05 +0000
  Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-11-17 09:24 +0100
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  Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-11-17 12:04 +0100
  Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? BootNic <bootnic.bounce@gmail.com> - 2012-11-17 11:28 -0500
    Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-18 01:56 +0100
      Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Dr J R Stockton <reply1247@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-11-19 19:53 +0000
        Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-20 11:03 +1100
          Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-20 01:50 +0100
          Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Dr J R Stockton <reply1247@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-11-21 18:44 +0000
            Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-22 14:07 +1100
        Re: how to remove trailing decimal or decimal 0 of a string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-20 01:04 +0100
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