Didn'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"
You tell us!
Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
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Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#22See also http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-to-pronounce-hexadecimal/
I was about to post the same link! In case you didn't click the link it is from the show Silicon Valley and has the following number words:
0xA_ : Atta
0xB_ : Bibbity
0xC_ : City
0xD_ : Dickety
0xE_ : Ebbity
0xE_ : FleventyRe: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#23In French, and more specifically French as spoken in some areas in Switzerland, there is a very natural way of pronouncing hex numbers:
1 to F are the normal 'un' to 'quinze'. A is 'dix'.
10 is 'seize'. 11 is 'seize et un' etc. Until 1F which is `seize et quinze'.
20 to 2F are 'vingt' until 'vingt et quinze'.
Etc.
70, 80 and 90 are called 'septante', 'huitante' (Swiss-specific) and 'nonante'.
A0 is 'dixante', then we have 'onzante', 'douzante', 'treizante', 'quatorzante' and 'quinzante'.
100 is 'cent', and from there normal rules apply.
Etc.
So B78D would be 'onze mille sept cents huitante treize'.
Note that 'soixante dix' is 6A, not 70.
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#24There's got to be some origin for those particular names - were they just lab partners or something? I need to know!
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#25Didn'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"
Yes, in Mandarin, the number 5 is wǔ (五), and the number 10 is shí (十). The number 50 is written as 五十 (I tend to read it as 5*10, or “five-tens” as you put it). I think it makes some simple math concepts easier to understand.
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#26It's amazing what naming conventions are used over time. In the 70's/early 80's "~" was (at least in programming circles in the UK) called a swan-hyphen, today it is often called a tilde. Though I'm sure it has many other names that have come and gone throughout the fashion of time.
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#27In French, and more specifically French as spoken in some areas in Switzerland, there is a very natural way of pronouncing hex numbers: 1 to F are the normal 'un' to 'quinze'. A is 'dix'. 10 is 'seize'. 11 is 'seize et un' etc. Until 1F which is `seize et quinze'. 20 to 2F are 'vingt' until 'vingt et quinze'. Etc. 70, 80 and 90 are called 'septante', 'huitante' (Swiss-specific) and 'nonante'. A0 is 'dixante', then we…
Let's note that this fall apart in Metropolitan French, where we don't say neither « septante » for 70, nor « nonante » for 90 (and even less « huitante » for 80), but « soixante-dix » for 70, « quatre-vingt » for 80 and « quatre-vingt-dix » for 90.
It's quite a shame, because that solution for reading hexadecimal numbers out loud is quite elegant :)
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#28See also http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-to-pronounce-hexadecimal/
ha, great link -- here's another version of the clip from the article that isn't region blocked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFzze2o_NYY
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#29Remind me of Boby's "bibi-binary" :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi-binary
Re: Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
#30It's amazing what naming conventions are used over time. In the 70's/early 80's "~" was (at least in programming circles in the UK) called a swan-hyphen, today it is often called a tilde. Though I'm sure it has many other names that have come and gone throughout the fashion of time.
In Spanish most people call it "tilde" as well, but you can also call it "Virgulilla" [1]. I always call it like this just because of how it sounds, love that word.