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The octal counting system is one example, constructed to match how Na’vi would naturally have evolved given the physical characteristics of the beings speaking it.
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Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2022
Each neural core is composed of two octal compute cores (OC), each of which has eight digital in-memory compute cores where weights are stored, and matrix multiplication is performed.
—Karl Freund, Forbes, 21 June 2022
To clean things up, a final sequence was entered:
VERB 21 ENTER, NOUN 1 ENTER, 1010 ENTER, 77 ENTER
Reversing the first step in the hack, MODREG was set back to 77 octal (63 decimal).
—Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
The crew entered: VERB 11 ENTER, NOUN 10 ENTER, 30 ENTER
VERB 11 was a request to monitor octal data in the first of the DSKY's three display registers.
—Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2022
Each neural core is composed of two octal compute cores (OC), each of which has eight digital in-memory compute cores where weights are stored, and matrix multiplication is performed.
—Karl Freund, Forbes, 21 June 2022
To clean things up, a final sequence was entered:
VERB 21 ENTER, NOUN 1 ENTER, 1010 ENTER, 77 ENTER
Reversing the first step in the hack, MODREG was set back to 77 octal (63 decimal).
—Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
The crew entered: VERB 11 ENTER, NOUN 10 ENTER, 30 ENTER
VERB 11 was a request to monitor octal data in the first of the DSKY's three display registers.
—Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
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“Octal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/octal. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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octal
adjective
oc·tal
ˈäk-tᵊl 
: of, relating to, or being a number system with a base of eight
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