Recently, I encountered a bug in code that handled longitude values, where 33 degrees longitude is typically written as 033. Upon investigation, I discovered that Java was calculating 033 + 1 as 28 instead of 34. This happened because, when we write longitude values like "033" in geographic notation, we mean decimal 33 degrees. However, if we write it directly in Java, C++, or similar languages, it is interpreted as octal 33 (which equals decimal 27) due to the leading zero!
This is a classic example of why it's important to be careful when working with domain-specific number formats - what makes sense in geographic notation can have unexpected behavior when directly translated to programming language syntax!
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