Cholestasis of Pregnancy. Some women experience a very severe itching in late pregnancy. The most common cause of this is cholestasis, a common liver disease that only happens in pregnancy. Cholestasis of pregnancy is a condition in which the normal flow of bile in the gallbladder is affected by the high amounts of pregnancy hormones.
up vote 20 down vote. Octal is used when your word consists of a number of bits divisible by 3. Examples are ancient systems with 18bit word sizes, systems with 9bit bytes, or unix file permissions. If the number of bits in your word is divisible by 4, however, please do use hex, by all means.
Base (Radix) As with the other systems, the radix, or base, is the number of symbols used in the system. The octal system uses eight symbols - 0 through 7. The base, or radix, is indicated by the subscript 8. Positional Notation The octal number system is a positional notation number system.Just as the decimal system uses powers of 10 and the binary system uses powers of 2, the octal system uses power of 8 to determine the value of a number's position. The following bar graph shows the positions and the power of the base:he terms that you learned in the decimal and binary sections are also used with the octal system. The unit remains a single object, and the number is still a symbol used to represent one or more units. Base (Radix). As with the other systems, the radix, or base, is the number of symbols used in the system.