Why does pinging 192.168.072 (only 2 dots) return a response from 192.168.0.58?

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00:00 Question
01:35 Accepted answer (Score 572)
08:24 Answer 2 (Score 149)
08:39 Answer 3 (Score 103)
11:23 Answer 4 (Score 24)
12:37 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/486788/w...

Question links:
[Super User Question of the Week]: https://meta.superuser.com/questions/tag...
[blog entry]: http://blog.superuser.com/2012/10/15/inc.../
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Accepted answer links:
[syss pointed out]: http://blog.superuser.com/2012/10/15/inc...
[learn some number bases]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix

Answer 2 links:
[octal]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal
[shorthand]: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/onli...

Answer 3 links:
[man page for inet_aton()]: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/onli...
[2010 source code for iputils]: http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/
[man page for inet_pton()]: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/onli...

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