Octal is a base-8 number system commonly used to represent binary numbers and other numbers in a shorter form. Below is a basic chart of how a binary number is converted to an octal number.

Below are some binary examples and their octal equivalents.

10001111 = 217 10101111 = 257 11010100 = 324

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