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		geophile on Oct 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does pinging 192.168.072 return a response fro... 072 octal = 58 decimal? Seems to work. My localhost is 172.16.53.144 and pinging 172.020.53.144 works, returning 172.16.53.144. Never knew that notation was supported.

rhizome on Oct 12, 2012 [–]

This is just a me-too submission from the "1111-0111" thread going around.

http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/11d9ya/can_someo...

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