The octal notation is a number system where we use only eight digits, that is, from 0 to 7. You can represent a number in octal format with JavaScript if you like.
Earlier, to represent a numeric constant as octal, we needed to prefix the numeric constant using 0. For example, take a look at the following:
const a = 017;const b = 15;console.log(a === b);console.log(a);
The output is as follows:
true15
But often, programmers new to JavaScript, get confused with octal representations and decimal numbers with 0 at the front. For example, they think 017 is the same as 17. Therefore, to remove this confusion, JavaScript now allows us to prefix numeric constants using 00 to make JavaScript interpret them as octal. Here is an ...
