0o10464

0o10464 is an octal literal, a base‑8 representation of the integer value 4 404 in decimal notation. In octal, each digit corresponds to a power of eight; the digits of 0o10464 represent 1 × 8⁴ + 0 × 8³ + 4 × 8² + 6 × 8¹ + 4 × 8⁰, which evaluates to 4 096 + 0 + 256 + 48 + 4 = 4 404. The same quantity expressed in hexadecimal is 0x1134.

The prefix “0o” (zero followed by the letter “o”) is the Python‑specific syntax for octal literals introduced in Python 3 as part of PEP 3127, which replaced the older convention of a leading zero alone. Other programming languages, such as C, C++, and Java, historically used a solitary leading zero to denote octal values, though this practice can lead to ambiguity. Modern codebases often adopt explicit prefixes—0o for octal, 0x for hexadecimal, and 0b for binary—to improve readability.

Octal notation arose historically from early computing environments where word sizes were multiples of three bits, making groups of three binary digits correspond naturally to a single octal digit. Although less common today, octal literals remain useful for representing file permission bits in Unix‑like operating systems, where permission sets are frequently expressed as three‑digit octal numbers (e.g., 0755). The specific value 0o10464 does not have a widely recognized special meaning beyond its numeric identity, but it serves as an example of how octal literals are written and interpreted in modern programming contexts.