From: dnomhcir@gmx.com   
      
   Ben Collver  writes:   
      
   > To cope with this problem some workers have devised their own   
   > conventions of writing and pronouncing such numbers. A system in use   
   > at the Bell Telephone Laboratories would set off the above figure in   
   > groups of three digits:   
   >   
   >     11,110,101,000   
   >   
   > and would then pronounce each group of three (or less) separately as   
   > its decimal equivalent. The first binary group, 11, is the equivalent   
   > of the decimal 3; the second, 110, of the decimal 6; the third, 101,   
   > of the decimal 5. (000 is zero in any notation.) The above would then   
   > be read, "Three, six, five, zero."   
      
   This is called Octal, is it not.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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