Entering a very large number

[Antoon Pardon]

On 23-03-18 14:35, 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
> ...
>
In what way is that meaningful information? How will that information
help you in any way with writing your program?

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Antoon.