--- a/chapters/25.markdown Sat Dec 31 13:26:29 2011 -0500
+++ b/chapters/25.markdown Sat Dec 31 13:26:36 2011 -0500
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
:echom 017
:echom 019
-Vim will print "15" for the first command, because "18" in octal is equal to
-"18" in decimal. For the second command Vim treats it as a decimal number, even
+Vim will print "15" for the first command, because "17" in octal is equal to
+"15" in decimal. For the second command Vim treats it as a decimal number, even
though it starts with a `0`, because it's not a valid octal number.
Because Vim silently does the wrong thing in this case, I'd recommend avoiding