[Solved] JAVA Code snippet: Explanation of octal / radix 8 numbers

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An int prepended with 0in Java represents an Octal, which means you count to 7, then represent the (decimal) value of 8 as 10, and continue form there.

As an example / for comparison:

Decimal       Octal
8             10
9             11
10            12
11            13
16            20
17            21
24            30
25            31
64            100
65            101
etc...

solved JAVA Code snippet: Explanation of octal / radix 8 numbers