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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: Babel trims leading 0s for certain numbers of tables
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:18:45 +0800
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Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:

> I've just discovered that when Org results are returned in a table,
> they are modified in that leading 0s are removed. Is this a feature? A
> bug? Is there a workaround for this? Leading 0s are not removed if the
> result is a string, but in many cases a string of numbers is still a
> string and should retain those 0s.

Maybe you can use a format specifier for that column, so the
zero-padding is retained?