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Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> writes:

> To cope with this problem some workers have devised their own
> conventions of writing and pronouncing such numbers. A system in use
> at the Bell Telephone Laboratories would set off the above figure in
> groups of three digits:
>
>     11,110,101,000
>
> and would then pronounce each group of three (or less) separately as
> its decimal equivalent. The first binary group, 11, is the equivalent
> of the decimal 3; the second, 110, of the decimal 6; the third, 101,
> of the decimal 5. (000 is zero in any notation.) The above would then
> be read, "Three, six, five, zero."

This is called Octal, is it not.