Eleventy What? 157
TheFr00n asks: "I recently managed to teach my ten year old son the hexadecimal number system, but he shot me back a question that has me stumped. How does one pronounce hex, after the first iteration? In decimal, we have nice words like 'fifty' and 'sixteen'. Is there an official way of pronouncing a hexadecimal number like CF9? 'See hundred and effty-nine'? (which is totally wrong anyway because a hundred is 64 in hexidecimal) Any thoughts?"
No worries here (Score:2, Funny)
Color (Score:5, Funny)
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"CF9"
"CF9 with Jack and Jill"
"Now F is tired"
"CF sleep..."
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Re:I'll be so damn happy (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe the media will show some interest (Score:3, Funny)
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I've thought about this (Score:2, Funny)
What needs to be done is to invent words that mean each of these symbols. When you say A in hex it is not the alphabet A, it's a totally different concept and needs a different word to express it.
The best way would be to invent and standardize a set of words for speaking numbers/about numbers in base 16. Because, really, 10 would be pronounced "sixteen" which makes no sense. Base16(16) should be pronounced "16" and mean base10(22).
It's a culture/language thing, you see. In order to have it make sane sense you need to think of numbers in base 16, not 10.
I have, of course, come up with my own words for each of these A-F numbers, with simple rules for how to pronounce combinations like 1CF anf D7B and so on. I'd post them, but I've mislaid the paper I wrote them on. And I think that illustrates my point: In order to remember/use these things properly, we'd have to think in another base. And that's just too impractical to be likely to happen.
Yes (Score:4, Funny)
Is there an official way of pronouncing a hexadecimal number like CF9?
"Three thousand five hundred seventy seven."
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