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