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   dharmik (dharmik@linuxusers.in)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 15:12:55 JST dharmik
   when i was in primary school, 'decimal' meant numbers like 4.5643. now, in programming, a 'decimal integer' just means a whole number in base 10. the definitions didn’t change—i just stepped into a world where words multitask.
   
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     screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 15:12:54 JST screwlisp

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     @dharmik yeah, people in school are often confused about this. Decimal refering to a number being in base ten cf octal being in base 8, not in having a decimal point. Obviously the natural base being octal

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     screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 15:13:39 JST screwlisp

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     @dharmik though I'm now wondering how straight I can keep my face while saying octalion point