That's not quite the same things as considering '00' to be non-zero is it!

No, but you were complaining about the arbitraryness. It has the same arbitraryness as for true/false.

C:\test>perl -e"print '00' == 0"
1
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So what?

$ perl -E 'say "BrowserUK" == 0'
1
$ perl -E 'say "00" eq 0'

$
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Heh, I made the challenge, I make the rules. If you don't like the rules, don't play.