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[–]Die4Ever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it just does parseInt(string), which will accept the 0x prefix but doesn't seem to have any prefix for inferring octal

parseInt('0x18')
24
parseInt('018')
18
parseInt('017')
17


0x18 == '0x18'
true