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				As a programmer, I never have found an use for the Oct system.. this joke is more pointed towards mathematicians I guess?
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				@EngineerCoding mathematicians dont use hex and oct values as much as we do.
 
 RGB colors are encoded in octal.
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				 tokumei20877y@illegaldisease RGB is *hexadecimal*. The only time I've seen octal in the wild is permission flags for Linux filesystems since each class of users gets 3 bits for rwx tokumei20877y@illegaldisease RGB is *hexadecimal*. The only time I've seen octal in the wild is permission flags for Linux filesystems since each class of users gets 3 bits for rwx
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				@tokumei You can also define a color using octal, was my point. Linux flags are a nice example, thanks :)
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