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In article <mailman.8.1294038895.27854.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:

> What is the reasoning behind displaying it in octal rather than
> decimal or hexadecimal in the first place? I didn't know people cared
> about octals anymore.

I think it's historical.  The original MIT developers tended to use 
octal more than hex.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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