Just noticed that \251 in octal is equal to 169 decimal. (but I'm sure everybody's going to tell me that:-)
But why octal? The last time I used base-8 for anything was when I used a Digital PDP 8 computer with a twelve bit word length, and octal made sense there as each octal digit correspods to three bits, so a twelve bit number can be represented in exactly four octal digits. Nowadays we use 8-bit bytes, which don't fit exactly into octal digits. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
