Binary to Octal Converter

• The binary number 11001 is split into 2 groups of 3 bits, each mapped directly to one octal digit.
• The octal representation 31 is more compact: 5 binary digits compress into 2 octal digits.
• Both notations represent the same value: 25 in decimal.
• Octal was widely used in computing to represent binary data concisely before hexadecimal became standard.

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