Octal in A Sentence

    1

    If it is an octal digit (from 0 to 7) there must be two more such digits.

    2

    They take numbers as decimal unless starting with 0x (or 0X ), meaning hexadecimal; a leading zero does not mean octal.

    3

    Note the way that decimal and octal integers are read in by grammar rules.

    4

    Each character, in particular those which cannot be typed directly from the keyboard, can also be typed in three digit octal notation.

    5

    To introduce arbitrary characters into a string using octal or hexadecimal notation.

    6

    Two isolates were identified as being the widely virulent race octal 1677, last detected in 1986.

    7

    Octal and hex numbers may be specified as in C. The second argument specifies the radix for the result; the default is 10.