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  2. Octal - Wikipedia

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    Octal ( base 8) is a numeral system with eight as the base . In the decimal system, each place is a power of ten. For example: In the octal system, each place is a power of eight. For example: By performing the calculation above in the familiar decimal system, we see why 112 in octal is equal to in decimal.

  3. Sumatra PDF - Wikipedia

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    The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny open source portable reader that opens PDF's in the blink of an eye. Bloat and startup time is a major drawback to Adobe Reader, so we fled to the faster arms of Foxit Reader long ago. However, at 850KB, Sumatra is way slimmer than FoxIt. ^ Anders Ingeman Rasmussen (2008).

  4. Punched tape - Wikipedia

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    Paper tape reader on the Harwell computer with a small piece of five-hole tape connected in a circle – creating a physical program loop. Punched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage device that consists of a long strip of paper through which small holes are punched. It was developed from and was subsequently used alongside ...

  5. Escape sequences in C - Wikipedia

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    For example, \11 is an octal escape sequence denoting a byte with decimal value 9 (11 in octal). However, \1111 is the octal escape sequence \111 followed by the digit 1 . In order to denote the byte with numerical value 1, followed by the digit 1 , one could use "\1""1" , since C concatenates adjacent string literals.

  6. PDP-8 - Wikipedia

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    An open PDP-8/E with its logic modules behind the front panel and one dual TU56 DECtape drive at the top A "Straight-8" running at the Stuttgart Computer Museum. The earliest PDP-8 model, informally known as a "Straight-8", was introduced on 22 March 1965 priced at $18,500 (equivalent to about $178,900 in 2023).

  7. List of PDF software - Wikipedia

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    Free ( Mozilla Public License) an Office suite; allows to export (and import, with accuracy limitations) PDF files. Microsoft Word 2013. Proprietary. Desktop software. The 2013 edition of Office allows PDF files to be converted into a format that can be edited. Nitro PDF Reader. Trialware.

  8. od (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    Unix, Unix-like, IBM i. Platform. Cross-platform. Type. Command. License. coreutils: GPLv3+. od is a command on various operating systems for displaying ("dumping") data in various human-readable output formats. The name is an acronym for " octal dump" since it defaults to printing in the octal data format.

  9. Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia

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    The term magic number or magic constant refers to the anti-pattern of using numbers directly in source code. This has been referred to as breaking one of the oldest rules of programming, dating back to the COBOL, FORTRAN and PL/1 manuals of the 1960s. [1] The use of unnamed magic numbers in code obscures the developers' intent in choosing that ...