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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsThink this might be a bug, or else I don't understand Octal notaton yet. :)
I'm having trouble getting passed the second question in this challenge. It wants the value 16 in octal number notation.
Create a variable named "mevol" and assign the value 16 to it using an octal number literal.
I try
var mevol = 018;
But it comes up with
Bummer: octal notation is written like this var o = 021
I'm sure I'm doing it right, but I'm out of ideas as to what might be going wrong. Any thoughts?
2 Answers
Andrew Dunn
14,718 PointsThis one's pretty quick .... base 10 ends with 9... so obviously base 8 ends with.... 7!
If I haven't lost my mind yet, I believe the number you're looking for is 020
Andrew Dunn
14,718 PointsI rarely use them - I vaguely remember learning and hating them in computer science in high school. If you're working at the byte level they're probably more helpful than in raw web development.
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsJonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsYup, that's the one thank you! :)
Think I just need a bit of extra time on the numbers video to get octal numbers in the brain.
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsJonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsLooking back at Octals again I could easily have worked out the answer with the club written in the comments haha But Octal numbers still confuse me. Probably best avoiding them altogether?