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.

	

	octal forty

    Jargon for "I'm drawing a blank.", I can't work it
   out.

   Octal 40 (decimal 32) is the ASCII code for space
   character.  By an odd coincidence, hex 40 is the EBCDIC
   space character.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-03-06)