Campbell Ritchie wrote:
Rade Koncar wrote:. . . with the latter four indicating a change of numeric base. . . .
Please confirm the exact details of the book: is it Boyarsky and Selikoff? Please check here whether that has already been reported as an error; I didn't find it.
I think it would read better as,
. . with the latter five indicating a change of numeric base. . . .
Latter five would indicate that 0 is octal zero, and octal zero is in fact 00.
I think the best thing would be to rephrase the whole thing
this is a copy/paste from my kindle:
Numeric literals can begin with 1–9, 0, 0x, 0X, 0b, and 0B, with the latter four indicating a change of numeric base.
Boyarsky, Jeanne. OCP Oracle Certified Professional
Java SE 11 Developer Complete Study Guide (p. 70). Wiley. Kindle Edition.