Octal

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
OCT
Pronunciation
/ˈɒktəl/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
NASA

Examples in Context

  1. A positional system of numeration that uses octal digits and a radix of 8.
  2. It can display data in ASCII, decimal, hex, and octal formats.
  3. Permissions set in this way use up to four octal digits.
  4. Operands can be variables or decimal, hexadecimal, octal, or binary numbers.
  5. It supports numbers of different bases, including binary, octal and hexadecimal.

Other meanings of OCT