Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)

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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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