Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)

Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by Signez on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:00AM (#20799900)

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 :)

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Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by Tharkun on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:11AM (#20799995)

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

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Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by tasogare on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:19AM (#20800048)

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.

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Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by FoeNyx on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:00AM (#20807248)

"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".

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Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by Guillaume86 on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:07PM (#20804261)

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

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Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by DoreenMichele on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:12PM (#20803833)

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

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