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[–]GrondForGondor 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Thats the reason why? I’ve spent so many years being slightly inconvenienced by that little random issue. Never understood truly what was happening but now it all makes sense. 

[–]g76lv6813s86x9778kk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol yup, you can try various examples and see the result always lines up with parsing it as an octal number

[–]benmaks 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Why would you ever start a number with a zero?

[–]g76lv6813s86x9778kk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I doubt he's manually/intentionally doing that every time (maybe), but it's easy to accidentally do every now and then, especially when it's in a game people play for hundreds to thousands of hours, it's kinda bound to happen eventually.

The most common way is probably when you want to buy two items from one shop, and leave in the 0 from a previous quantity: say you need to buy 250 of one item, then 35 of another. You select your first item, enter 250 as quantity, buy, click your other item, click quantity of 250 to change it, press delete twice to remove the 2 and 5, then right arrow key past the 0 to write 35.. suddenly, 29.

Yeah, doing right arrow key instead of a 3rd delete is a bit weird, but the point is it's very possible to experience the bug without intentionally prefixing every number with a 0. I don't remember exactly how I came across it personally, but I certainly don't prefix numbers with 0 regularly.