octal

Octal is similar to hexadecimal because they are both easily converted to binary.

Octal, desperate not to be stranded alone with a spaceplane he couldn't open.

His imagination was gibbering with images of the pursuit Sam and Octal were putting together behind him.

He'd almost forgotten about Sam and Octal.

Octal was also common.

Octal, for Christ's sake get back here!"

"You know Sam Neeves and Octal Sipika haven't returned yet?"

Machine code programming used an unusual form of octal, known locally as 'bastardized octal'.

How many executives need to look up ASCII codes or work out problems in Hexadecimal and Octal?

Octal is sometimes used in computing instead of hexadecimal, perhaps most often in modern times in conjunction with file permissions under Unix systems (see chmod).

Octal is converted to binary and then binary to hexadecimal, grouping digits by fours, which correspond each to a hexadecimal digit.

The Madeeir owned by Sam Neeves and Octal Sipika.

The word 'octal' is similarly incorrect; a correct form would be 'octaval' (to go with decimal), or 'octonary' (to go with binary).

A more polite colloquial name was 'silly octal', derived from the official name which was 'syllabic octal'.

His armour suit's communication block began to pick up first scraps of datavised exchanges between Sam and Octal, unintelligible bursts of digital code with a curious echo effect.

With its deadly lasers and hand-to-hand battles, 'The Octal' is a combat sport for a new generation of athletes - but Tanner Brooks is no longer a young man.

Octal was an ideal abbreviation of binary for these machines because their word size is divisible by three (each octal digit represents three binary digits).

In the early days of binary vacuum-tube computers, their reliability was poor enough to justify marketing a mechanical octal version ("Binary Octal") of the Marchant desktop calculator.

The humor lies in the similarity of the abbreviation for October/Octal and December/Decimal, and the coincidence that the two representations equal the same amount (31 Octal is Decimal).

It would be putting off the inevitable, the suit's regenerator gills could scrub carbon dioxide from his breath for another ten days before its power cells needed recharging, but Sam and Octal would hunt him down eventually, they knew he couldn't afford to stray far from the spaceplane.

Another predictable set are formed from numbers to indicate numerical bases: duuma 'binary', okuma 'octal', dekuma 'decimal' (dekuma logaritmo 'base-10 logarithm'), dekduuma 'duodecimal', deksesuma 'hexadecimal', dudekuma 'vigesimal', and sesdekuma 'sexagesimal'.

The newfound capital was used to acquire its two major local rivals in the Perth area - Wantree Internet and Omen Internet - along with numerous smaller rivals such as Networx Internet, Infinite Data, Octal and Net Trek Online Services.

In the octal system each place is a power of eight.

We would put its address into, say, location octal 10.

In an octal system, there are only 8 digits, 0 through 7.

Some octal games with different codes are closely related to each other.

Octal counting systems are based on the number 8.

All of the codes can be described by stating 3 octal values.

In the code above, all values are given in octal.

This allowed them to operate at higher frequencies than octal tubes.

An interesting feature of the language is its use of octal numbers.

This is known as an octal (base-8) counting system.

Codes are usually described as three octal digits, (for example, 054).

The octal system can also be useful as a tool for people who need to deal directly with binary computer data.

The table on the right shows the addresses (in octal) of the user registers.

The octal numbering system is also used as another way to represent binary numbers.

It's highly technical, and all in their octal mathematics.

Similar to , allows for atomic operations on octal words.

Releases have been numbered using the octal base system.

According to the documentation the only octal escape supported is .

An octal game is played with tokens divided into heaps.

Like most processors of its time, the native bit grouping was octal, despite the 16-bit word length.

It may be displayed in binary, octal, or symbolic notation.

Octal games with at most 3 octal-digits have been analyzed through the years.

Everything in their mathematics must be expressed in octal.

But if it's octal, that automatic reflex is wrong.

Despite the use of octal base vacuum tubes, they were compact, rugged and light weight.