In article <11**********************@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups. com>,
<di**********@yahoo.comwrote:
>hi...in "%d", why the % is used..?
They could have chosen anything not likely to appear in text.
Why they choose % specifically as the format introducer is a
historical matter, not a technical matter.
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