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Storing numbers as CHAR where no calculation will ever happen

Hello everyone, I guess this is more of a best practice question. When you have data which contains numbers that will never be used for any aggregation should you store them as an INT or CHAR? An example would be userID - 1234 (this will always be a number). Thanks in advance

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