octal

IPA: ˈɑktʌɫ

(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
(arithmetic, computing, countable) A digit or value in the octal number system.

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematical calculations performed using octal.

Examples of "octal" in Sentences

This, written in octal, gives 666 - the number of the Beast.
You made a mistake with the second number -- 12438 isn't an octal number.
Oh, and I've forgotten more cheap octal gags than you whippersnappers will ever know.
Can these people do octal arithmetic and calculate absolute addresses for machine code jump instructions?
Well, the question is: Define the octal number system and give me the decimal equivalent of the octal numbers 05726 and
"The octal system is a number system with eight digits, like the decimal system has ten and the binary system has two."
His teachers -- like poor Mr. Cummings, the freshman math teacher of the octal number incident -- stopped calling on him, for fear that he'd mock them and their own limitations.
We have not seen that and most of the data converter testing we have done is at Max, what they would call octal site, I have seen some dual, some quad and some octal, but I haven't seen data converters get into strip testing at this point.
Fred Hoyle has ingeniously speculated that, if we had been born with eight digits and therefore become accustomed to octal arithmetic instead of decimal, we might have invented binary arithmetic and hence electronic computers a century earlier than we did since 8 is a power of 2.