diff --git a/lib/string-utils.ts b/lib/string-utils.ts
index 3f315c17..9c52197d 100644
--- a/lib/string-utils.ts
+++ b/lib/string-utils.ts
@@ -58,6 +58,6 @@ export function looksLikeNumber (x: null | undefined | number | string): boolean
   // hexadecimal.
   if (/^0x[0-9a-f]+$/i.test(x)) return true
   // don't treat 0123 as a number; as it drops the leading '0'.
-  if (x.length > 1 && x[0] === '0') return false
+  if (/^0[^.]/.test(x)) return false
   return /^[-]?(?:\d+(?:\.\d*)?|\.\d+)(e[-+]?\d+)?$/.test(x)
 }
diff --git a/test/string-utils.cjs b/test/string-utils.cjs
index 74d618d4..081dd084 100644
--- a/test/string-utils.cjs
+++ b/test/string-utils.cjs
@@ -27,8 +27,11 @@ describe('string-utils', function () {
     it('it detects strings that could be parsed as numbers', () => {
       strictEqual(looksLikeNumber('3293'), true)
       strictEqual(looksLikeNumber('0x10'), true)
-      strictEqual(looksLikeNumber('0x10'), true)
+      strictEqual(looksLikeNumber('.1'), true)
+      strictEqual(looksLikeNumber('0.1'), true)
+      strictEqual(looksLikeNumber('0.10'), true)
 
+      strictEqual(looksLikeNumber('00.1'), false)
       strictEqual(looksLikeNumber('0100'), false)
       strictEqual(looksLikeNumber('apple'), false)
     })