Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to computing or reckoning by eights; octonary.
- Of, consisting of, or pertaining to, eight.
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The binary base, therefore, is here proposed, as the only proper base for gradation; and the octonal, as the true commercial base, for numeration and notation: two bases which in combination form a binoctonal system that is at once simple, comprehensive, and efficient.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
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