it really bugs me that federal regulations are written as if they have decimal places but they aren't ordered using normal rules for decimals. so, for example, the IRS regulation 26 C.F.R. §1.100 comes right after 26 C.F.R. §1.99. it shouldn't be like that! §1.99 is the same as §1.990, so it should be well after §1.100, between §1.989 and §1.991.
plus, §1.100 is the same thing as §1.1. it's simply wrong to have a section with the cite 26 C.F.R. §1.1 and another one with 26 C.F.R. §1.100 as a cite. they should be the same section. if it's not supposed to be a decimal, they should stop writing it like it's a decimal. surely there is another symbol they could use other than a dot.
i've thought about this each and every time i've had to flip through the federal regs over the past decade. i think this is the only time i've said/written anything about it.
i feel better already.
