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Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by lucideer on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:29AM (#20800141)
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.

Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by unfreezingly on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:28AM (#20800633)
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
Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by molyss on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:44AM (#20800763)
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

Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by gowld on Monday August 26, 2019 @05:03PM (#20803754)
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".

Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by dragontamer on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:34PM (#20801206)

    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.

Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by kps on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:59PM (#20802629)
‘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

Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by dragontamer on Monday August 26, 2019 @03:33PM (#20802919)
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.

Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by roywiggins on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:44PM (#20803561)
Not to be confused with the long-scale numbers: milliard/billiard/trilliard
Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by smrq on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:33PM (#20802427)
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

Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by vermilingua on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:33AM (#20800685)
Pronounce 11,78D vs B78D.
Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by eslaught on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:25PM (#20801107)
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.

Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by vermilingua on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:05PM (#20805708)
But onety-one thousand isn’t strictly one digit, is it?
Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by lucideer on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:42AM (#20839655)
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).

Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by MayeulC on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:39AM (#20806851)
From the grandparent:

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

Or, in English:

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