I, too, have a considerable affection for octal; and can add, subtract, multiply, and (with a bit of effort) divide in octal.
Sadly, octal is an inferior choice to hexadecimal on octet-oriented machines. So, until the day comes when the world comes to its senses and recognizes that the nonet is the superior byte size, and real computers have 36 and 72 bit words, we must sadly concede that octal's heyday has passed. [It will be interesting to see UTC accept RFC 4042's UTF-9 and UTF-18 as official encodings...] With tongue firmly in cheek, -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
