In <6BEB829548CD43D2A81F005C1A0F5FC0@ericnbPC>, on 04/02/2011
   at 03:26 PM, Eric Bielefeld <[email protected]> said:

>I got one off list reply saying that 033x was the way to represent
>the number in Octal.

Ouch! I know of languages where 033 would be octal, but none in which
033X is.

>When I made my original post on this subject, I actually thought
>that the  number was in hex

It is in every language I know for which it is valid syntax.
 
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