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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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