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}.

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {wall}]