I'll bet having a correct phone number helps with verifying credit card transactions.Are the improperly formatted numbers being stored in total and just not displayed, or are they just stored as the visible garbage they are?
It just sort of goes against the grain of what I learned about range, format and over and underflow checking, data type and data storage more than 40 years ago, especially when programing in assembly language. It still seemed to hold true and at least as critical for design, implementation and safe operation of the major systems I was thrown into in the late '80s and early '90s. But I guess that was another life or two ago.![]()
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