Emile van Sebille emile at fenx.com
Thu Jun 22 11:36:38 EDT 2000

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From: "Tony J Ibbs (Tibs)" <tony at lsl.co.uk>
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> (This explanation does not, of course, work for my pet
hate in Python, which
> is that 0 at the start of a number means it is in octal
(does *anyone* care
> about octal anymore?)
<snip>

Only when I want to know about the bits.  It's so
much easier to recognize 122 octal as having
alternate bits set than the equivalent in decimal
or hex.


Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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