I see no reason this couldn't be applied to English. "-nz(e)", etc. is akin to "-teen", and beyond that it should be exactly the same, with septante/seventy, huitante/eighty, and nonante/ninety being the popular English versions (unlike e.g. Metropolitan French).

B78D: Eleven Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Thirteen

See also Tolkien's famous hobbit's birthday party.

I love this system, but how do you deal with the ambiguity around "ten"?

    9: nine
    A: ten?
    B: eleven
    ...
    10: ten?
    20: twenty
    30: thirty

A=ten, 10=onety, 11=onety-one, 1A=onety-ten, etc ?

Edit: Or as suggested in the original link, A=Ten, 10=annty, 11=annty-one and 1A=annty-ten

Following the French style:

10 is sixteen.

11 is sixteen one

A is not ten in hexadecimal.

"ten" always means 10 in any base. the number after "nine" is "deci".

    9: nine
    A: ten
    B: eleven
    ...
    10: hexTen
    20: hexTwenty
    30: hexThirty
    ...
    100: hexHundred

My issue is that 1000 is hexThousand, but when working with hex numbers, its far more logical to group them in 4s.

0x10000 is a number more deserving of a name than 0x1000.

In effect, I want to call 0x10000 as "hex-thousand" (correlating to the number where 16-bits overflow). And 0x100000000 as "hex-million" (correlating to the 32-bit overflow number).

Of course, that leaves 0x1000 and 0x1000000 as ambiguous.

‘Myriad’, via Greek¹. (Apparently though, ‘myria‐’ was a pre-SI metric prefix for ×10000⏨, so I'm afraid someone will come along and insist on ‘myribi‐’, and I'll have to smack them.)

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000#Name

Interesting.

Myriad shares similarities to "Million". So maybe Myriad / Biriad / Trilliad / Quadrilliad will scale into the higher orders.

Hmm, maybe I'll make this a thing.

Not to be confused with the long-scale numbers: milliard/billiard/trilliard

I guess the language you're looking for is Japanese, then. (Or Chinese?)

1=一 ichi

10=十 juu

100=百 hyaku

1000=千 sen

1,0000=万 man

10,0000=十万 juuman

100,0000=百万 hyakuman

1000,0000=千万 senman

1,0000,0000=億 oku

1,0000,0000,0000=兆 chou

1,0000,0000,0000,0000=京 kei

Pronounce 11,78D vs B78D.

As suggested in a cousin: onety-one thousand, seven hundred and eighty thirteen.

Every word (phrase in the case of hundred/thousand) becomes strictly one digit, as opposed to normal English where e.g. "thirteen" is actually two digits.

But onety-one thousand isn’t strictly one digit, is it?

Sixteen-one thousand, seven hundred and eighty fourteen

As, from the original french comment:

1A = dix / ten

10 = seize / sixteen

11 = seize-et-un / sixteen-one

Others have suggested 10 = onety instead of sixteen. This would be more consistent, but less idiomatic (onety is not a number in English, and hex is base sixteen).

From the grandparent:

11 78D seize-un mille sept cent octante-quatrorze.

Or, in English:

11,78D Sixteen-one thousand seven hundred eighty fourteen.

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 :)

Belgian French uses septante/nonante. Huitante would be a great addition.

I personally prefer octante. Septante and huitante sounds to much like just slapping -tante to 7 and 8. And just to be coherent, I would love to have heptante for 70.

"septante", "octante", "nonante" would be coherently based on Latin etymons, but if you want to coherently use "heptante", which relies on a Greek etymon, you should probably also use "ennéante" in lieu of "nonante".

In the context of hex numbers "quatre-vingt" isn't a problem tho, no ambiguity.

For the folks who know zero French:

« soixante-dix » for 70 = sixty-ten

« quatre-vingt » for 80 = four-twenty

« quatre-vingt-dix » for 90 = four-twenty-ten

> Note that 'soixante dix' is 6A, not 70.

"Soixante-dix" would be 70 no matter how you look at it, and 0x6A is obviously "cent six".

That's why you need a new suffix as well as new names for exponentials instead of trying to retrofit existing number-naming convention. (Same thing is true for English as well)

So let this new hexadecimal suffix would be -anze, 16 ^ 3 is hexmille, 16 ^ 2 is hexcents,

0xB78D = 46989 would be "onze hexmille sept hexcents huitanze treize." or "quarante six mille neuf cents quatre-vingt neuf"

I think you’re missing the point. Soixante-dix becomes 6A, since 6x is « soixante » and A is « dix » Then, 7x becomes septante. For example, 7A becomes septante-dix

Sure, except that in standard (metropolitan) French, "soixante-dix" is already used for 70.