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		userbinator on Feb 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix Edition Zero (1971) where in context, the assumption should be that 0xxxx is octal That's what I thought it was too. This convention carried over into C and its derivatives today.

kragen on Feb 16, 2023 [–]

amusingly 8 and 9 would continue to be accepted as octal digits by the c (or b) compiler until ansi c forbid them

a priori, though, '01982' is not very likely to be intended as octal either

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