How to use in-sentence of “octal”:
+ To avoid confusion with decimal, octal or other numbering systems, hexadecimal numbers are sometimes written with a “h” after or “0x” before the number.
+ At one time, the octal system was used mainly for work with computers.
+ Computers use binary and people who study computers often use octal and hexadecimal numeral systems.
+ Where octal is equal to three-digit binary, hexadecimal is equal to four-digit binary.
+ As computers changed from using 24-bit systems to 32- and 64-bit systems, hexadecimal replaced octal for most uses.
+ Other systems in use are the octal systems.
