Why is 032 different than 32 in Ruby?

Question

I have noticed Ruby behaves differently when working with 032 and 32. I once got syntax errors for having 032 instead of just 32 in my code. Can someone explain this to me?

Answer 1

i don't know about syntax errors, but when you prefix a number with zero it means it's octal (base-8)... so 032 is actually 26 in decimal