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.
The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7. Octal numerals can be made from binary numerals by grouping consecutive binary digits into groups of three. For example, the binary representation for decimal 74 is 1001010. Two zeroes can be added at the left: 1 001 010, corresponding the octal digits 1 1 2, yielding the octal representation 112. In the decimal system each decimal place is a power of ten. For example: 74 10 = 7 Ã 10 1 + 4 ...