c - Octal number literals: When? Why? Ever? - Stack Overflow The only place I come across octal literals these days is when dealing with the permission bits on files in Linux, which are normally represented as 3 octal digits, where each digit represents the permissions for the file owner, group and other users respectively
Weird Behavior of large float in printf() and assigned to an int As per my calculation to convert the float values into the binary value stored by the computer (Sign, Exponent, Mantissa format), out of 32 bits, 1 bit is reserved for sign, 8 bits for Exponent