Q: Why do programmers always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 12:29:50PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> Might be a question, when is the last time you had to deal with octal
> numbers on a regular basis? For myself the answer was mid-1990s, the
> Toronto Free-Net had a Cisco ASM terminal server as part of the
> dial-up modem pool which insisted on numbering off all the modems in
> octal. This sort of worked out okay, as each rack of modems contained
> 16 modems, which we could treat as 1-20 (octal)...

And with hex it would have been one digit (if you started with 0). :)

The only place I ever use octal seems to be umask settings.

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Len Sorensen
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