Entering a very large number

[Richard Damon]

On 3/23/18 9:35 AM, ast wrote:
> Le 23/03/2018 à 14:16, Antoon Pardon a écrit :
>> On 23-03-18 14:01, ast wrote:
>>> Le 23/03/2018 à 13:43, Rustom Mody a écrit :
>>>> On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 5:46:56 PM UTC+5:30, ast wrote:
>
>
>> What meaningful information from number can you easily retrieve from
>> representing the number in some kind of table form that you can't from
>> just writing the number on one line?
>>
>
> digit n° 103 is 1
> digit n° 150 is 7
> ...
>
If the value of the specific digits is meaningful, they you likely don't 
really have a number, but a digital representation, for which a string 
is probably the better way to define it, and take the cost of the 
conversion as part of the cost to be pretty.

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Richard Damon