HP Prime - Suggestion: Leading zeros.

Hopefully this is an appropriate place for this post.
One of the most annoying aspects of the Prime is the way it strips off leading zeros from numbers.
This results in "0.791" being displayed as ".791". To my mind, this is ugly and, as I said, annoying.
So my suggestion is to add an option to force the leading "0" to always be displayed in this case.
I assume this would be fairly easy to implement given that there are already a few other supported output formats.

Hi,
I suggest you place your request on this forum:
http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/forum-5.html
Note: I do not work for HP, I just like playing with calculators :-)

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