Octal
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- comp-sci
Is a number notation using base-8.
Digits in octal range from [0-8] and are commonly prefixed with 0 (or 0o) in
programming languages.
For example the octal number 11 is \( 1 \times 8^1 + 1 \times 8^0 = 9 \).
In the olden days octal was commonly used on 36-bit architecture machines.