octal forty

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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