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Octal to Decimal Converter

Enter the values to get the decimal.

How to use

  1. Enter your values in the fields above.
  2. Press Calculate to see your result instantly.
  3. Use the Share button to copy a link to your result.

About this calculator

Converting octal (base-8) to decimal means summing each digit multiplied by 8 raised to its position power — for example octal 17 = 1×8¹ + 7×8⁰ = 15 in decimal — since octal only uses digits 0-7, with each digit representing exactly 3 bits.

Octal was the natural shorthand for early computers with word lengths divisible by 3 bits, and it survives today mainly in Unix/Linux file permission notation (chmod 755, for instance), so developers and system administrators still occasionally need to convert an octal permission or legacy value into decimal or hexadecimal to interpret or set it correctly.

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