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octal forty
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octal forty /ok'tl for'tee/ /n./ Hackish way of saying
"I'm drawing a blank." Octal 40 is the ASCII space
character, 0100000; by an odd coincidence, hex 40 (01000000)
is the EBCDIC space character. See wall.
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