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Octal (Base 8) Notation

An octal number has the general form:

displaymath1163

tex2html_wrap1161

displaymath1164

where tex2html_wrap_inline1167 is an octal digit from 0 to 7.

Example:

tabular346

Conversion between binary and octal is easy because tex2html_wrap_inline1185 Three bits correspond to one octal digit.

Example:

tex2html_wrap_inline1187


Mitch Roth
Wed Oct 9 13:38:30 ADT 1996