On Counting (2017)

Re:On Counting (2017) by lainga on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:36AM (#17145035)

also - not pointing any fingers - I suspect for the same reason hexadecimal (which programmers shortened to hex) was used over the proper Latin sexadecimal.

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Re:On Counting (2017) by romwell on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:43PM (#17150251)

Hm, I never realized that hexadecimal mixes the Greek prefix (hexa-) with Latin suffix (-decimal).

However, wouldn't proper Latin be sedecimal?

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Re:On Counting (2017) by hinkley on Friday May 25, 2018 @12:23AM (#17150599)

If I wrote things in sex I’d probably get fired.

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