Crossword-Solution: OCTAL
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| OCTAL | anagram | ACOLT, CALOT, LACTO, TLACO |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
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Sentences with OCTAL (5)
The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set.
Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in {C}, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures.
Historical note: although in modern usage shaped by a universe of 8-bit bytes the meta bit is invariably hex 80 (octal 0200), things were different on earlier machines with 36-bit words and 9-bit bytes.
The MIT and Stanford keyboards (see {space-cadet keyboard}) generated hex 100 (octal 400) from their meta keys.
Hackish way of saying "I'm drawing a blank." Octal 40 is the {{ASCII}} space character, 0100000; by an odd coincidence, {hex} 40 (01000000) is the {{EBCDIC}} space character.
Quotes with OCTAL (1)
Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 191 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).