If you have 7 digits of badges on Programmers.SE, you start to experience truncation:
With 8 digits of badges, you really get chopped off:
This isn't a problem on other Stack Exchange sites:
Yea, we've got big balls for our badges, but there might be some adjustments that can be done to pull in the space so that the current badge distribution is handled (it will be awhile before anyone gets 100 gold or 1000 bronze).