Re: On Binary Digits

From	Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: On Binary Digits
Date	2025-04-02 20:41 +0000
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On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:37:49 +0000, Ben Collver wrote:

> On 2025-04-01, Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Yes this is called Octal.  I only recall using octal in two places:
> C escape sequences (\033) and Unix file mode bits (755), both
> coincidentally from Bell.

I still use octal when using the chmod command, as I never learned the 
syntax of the alternative. All the bit meanings are burned into my brain.



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  Re: On Binary Digits Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-04-01 17:35 +0100
    Re: On Binary Digits Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2025-04-02 16:37 +0000
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        Re: On Binary Digits Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-04-02 20:40 +0000
        Re: On Binary Digits Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-04 19:03 +0000
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