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by TeMPOraL 2266 days ago
In a way. The convention is that 0123 is "123" in octal.
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yread 2266 days ago
Yes, I know that's why I even tried it in console as I was a bit surprised that parseInt doesn't do octal.

Why does js even support octal? I never found octal particularly useful. Speak hexadecimal or die

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sweeneyrod 2266 days ago
Because C does.
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