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The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

octal forty
 /ok'tl for´tee/, n.

    Hackish way of saying “I'm drawing a blank.” Octal 40 is the ASCII space
    character, 0100000; by an odd coincidence, hex 40 (01000000) is the 
    EBCDIC space character. See wall.