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atoav on May 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Major Version Numbers Are Not Sacred

Non US ZIPs regularily have strings in them (e.g. Dutch ZIP codes) so a string would be appropriate.

pwdisswordfish9 on June 1, 2022 [–]

This is half right. String would be more appropriate than an integer type even if that weren't true. ZIP codes really don't have anything to do with the fundamental numerical operations that are defined for integer types.

dariusj18 on June 14, 2022 | [–]

plus zip codes can start with "0". Excel always screws this up

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