Python Gotcha with Octal Numbers

[Charles Richmond]

jmfbahciv at aol.com wrote:
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> I do have two memoes that I found in my office boxes that were
> addressed to PDP-1 users.  I don't know the people who wrote
> them (Roland Silver, Edward Fredkin) nor where they were.
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> Well, if you can give me a clue about these memoes that I have, I'd
> appreciate it.
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Ed Fredkin is semi-famous. He was mentioned prominantly in David
Levy's book _Hackers_. He also invented some data structures that
are used today, notably the "trie". 

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