Mastodawn

hexadecimal

wizard zines

I never understood why Octal caught on.

It wastes space.

@SpaceLifeForm @b0rk_reruns but it's sensible when you have exactly 3 bits of relevant data, like Unix permissions (rwx)

Excellent point. I was thinking about and referring to the display characters involved to convey the information.

In order for you to *see* 'rwx' requires using 24 bits most likely. Maybe only 21 bits if 7-bit ASCII. Could be only 15 bits if 5-bit BAUDOT.

When looking at an octal representation of the three permission bits, where is the sticky bit stored? 😎