AC is annty-christ
Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
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Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#12I'll pronounce numbers like 0xF000 as "F thousand"
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#13Me and my children embrace this now.
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#14The extra digit names flow well, but I think shoehorning it into the same constructions English decimal numbers use doesn't, mostly because the “-ty”/“-teen” suffixes are too tied both etymologically and phonetically to being “ten”. If I say the word “eighteen”, making it 0x18 in one context and XVIII in another is close in plausible applicability and far in exact meaning, which is about the worst case for avoiding m…
Isn’t an issue what the words for numbers mean?
Does thousand mean the quantity itself or does it mean the decimal 1000?
In other words thousand = 1000 (dec) and 0x3E8 (hex). Are they both pronounced “thousand”? When someone says mix a thousand liters of glycol with ten kilograms of salt, both 1000 (dec) and 0x3E8 (hex) mean “thousand” each of something.
The only way to get around this is if every whole number on the number line had a unique name and could be represented by any numbering system.
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#15Ok, but I'm still pronouncing DEADF007 as "dead foot".
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#16AC is annty-christ
Of course it is! I never knew of these.
Such a computing lire, gem. I am going to say these first chance I get.
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#17Didn't Malcolm Gladwell talk about how the Chinese names for numbers were were closer to their place values and therefore less confusing for calculations?
e.g. "50" is "five-tens" instead of "fifty"
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal#Verbal_and_digital... "An additional naming system has been published online by S. R. Rogers in 2007[21] that tries to make the verbal representation distiguishable in any case, even when the actual number does not contain numbers A-F. Examples are listed in the tables below." "1743 one-thousek-seven-hundrek-fourtek-three"
Fine, but is it an imperial thousek, or a metric one?
Is imperial thou = 1024?
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#19Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#20The extra digit names flow well, but I think shoehorning it into the same constructions English decimal numbers use doesn't, mostly because the “-ty”/“-teen” suffixes are too tied both etymologically and phonetically to being “ten”. If I say the word “eighteen”, making it 0x18 in one context and XVIII in another is close in plausible applicability and far in exact meaning, which is about the worst case for avoiding m…
Isn’t an issue what the words for numbers mean? Does thousand mean the quantity itself or does it mean the decimal 1000? In other words thousand = 1000 (dec) and 0x3E8 (hex). Are they both pronounced “thousand”? When someone says mix a thousand liters of glycol with ten kilograms of salt, both 1000 (dec) and 0x3E8 (hex) mean “thousand” each of something. The only way to get around this is if every whole number on the…
Same question arises in binary - you could read "1000" as one thousand, but people are going to think you meant "whatever the base 10 quantity of 1000 is in binary" when what you actually meant was eight. It's easier to just always spell out anything that's not base 10.