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>>Then I threw it all together in one statement but, lordamighty, I forgot the close parenths. Unlike a certain question-asker we all know, I'm sure Naomi would have caught onto that one when the compiler complained.
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>"Excuses: Excuses are the tool of the incompetent. They build monuments of nothing. Those who specialize in them seldom amount to anything. Excuses." <bg>

And that's a quote from whom?

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>>>LMAO reminds me of that saying that you shouldn't throw rocks if you are in a glass house.
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>>"People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"
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>>You may well LYAO but the point is I offered a (imperfect) answer, compiled in 2 minutes - I tried, rather than giving up, and rather than lurking and waiting for someone to make a boob.
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>Well I must admidt that I tried to solve Naomi's original problem, but I looked at it from a mathematical point of view using numbers (which the title and body suggested). I thought about it for about 5 minutes before deciding that it would be so much easier to convert to a string and remove the unwanted zero's that I gave up on the mathematical approach with numbers.
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>The reason I decided to "pick" on you was because of your inappropriate comment to Naomi.

Well hardly inappropriate. Accompanied by a smiley it suggested that she'd hardly bust her chops thinking about the problem before deferring to the UT. And that goes for if I'd come up with the perfect solution, an imperfect solution, one that didn't work at all, or not even attempted it.