On 11/05/2018 01:25, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Chris Angelico <[email protected]>:

Octal makes a lot of sense in the right contexts.

I think octal is a historical relic from a time when people weren't yet
comfortable with hexadecimal.

It's a relic from when machines had word sizes that were multiples of three bits, or were divided up on 3-bit boundaries.

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