From where does the concept of octal number system come
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The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7. Octal numerals can be made from binary numerals by grouping consecutive binary digits into groups of three (starting from the right). For example, the binary representation for decimal 74 is 1001010.Use of the octal number system in IT applications. Octal used to be used widely within IT basically how hexadecimal is used today. It was used as an ideal abbreviation of binary because the bit size (amount of bits that could be handled at one go) of the CPUs that were used at the time that being 26 and 36 bit.
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