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diff --git a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
index 52ae02d..bbfd073 100644
--- a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
+++ b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
@@ -91,8 +91,9 @@ a subunit may be a filesystem partition
or a tty line.
.El
.Pp
-Major and minor device numbers can be given using the normal C
-notation, so that a leading
+Major and minor device numbers can be given in any format acceptable to
+.Xr strtoul 3 ,
+so that a leading
.Ql 0x
indicates a hexadecimal number, and a leading
.Ql 0
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