octal notation

1. 1.

   any mathematical notation that uses 8 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 7)

   Broadermathematical notation

Questions about octal notation

What does octal notation mean?

octal notation means "any mathematical notation that uses 8 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 7)".

Is octal notation a common word?

octal notation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.