Old joke rehashed

szukuro

Merry Christmas everyone! For the clueless, see this[^]

Abhinav S

The Oct Dec thing. Yeah old. :yawn: Upvote for making me realise the date today.

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Rob Philpott

Octal. Hmm, 3 bits huh? Never seen it used my whole life.

Regards, Rob Philpott.

ZurdoDev

That's a stretch.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

glennPattonPub

Know what you mean, GCSE computer studies we had to learn how to do it (and hex), started programming assembly thinking it might come in useful (use hex pretty much every project) Octal never! :~

R Giskard Reventlov

I thought it was going to be about corned beef...

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Corporal Agarn

Now I am hungry. Let the games begin.

Mark_Wallace

Hey, if you have to explain a joke... Or rather, if you have to explain that joke, you're not on CP.

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Gary R Wheeler

You never programmed on any old DEC equipment (such as the PDP-8[^]), where octal was the standard. Any machine that had a 12-bit word typically used octal.

Software Zen: delete this;

Rob Philpott

I'm not quite mature enough to have used such a thing. Even so, surely 3 hexidecimal digits would have been more use than 4 octal? Anything not a power of 2 goes against things rather, but perhaps people were happy stopping at 7 rather than the more obscure 0xf. When people start taking my idea of a 33 bit processor seriously, then perhaps it will have a resurgence!

Regards, Rob Philpott.