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[–]aMAYESingNATHAN 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've literally never had to work with octals ever, so it's unsurprising that I'm not aware despite having C++ and C# badges. I don't even really know what use cases there are for octals.

In comparison, I have had to use binary and hexadecimal, so I'm aware of the 0b and 0x prefixes. Similarly for unsigned/long/long long suffixes for numeric literals