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?"
In all non-decimal systems.. (Score:5, Informative)
All non decimal systems pronounce the digits individally.
E.g. 10 in base 2 is not "ten" but "one zero"
And 734 in octal is "seven, three, four. Not seven thirty four, or variations on that theme.
Hope this helps.
Re:Maybe (Score:3, Informative)
For anything other than decimal you're not meant to use "ten", "hundred", "twenty", etc. Eg:
Binary: 1011 - One-Oh-One-One
Octal: 7326 - Seven-Three-Two-Six
Decimal: 4729 - Four thousand seven hundred and twenty nine
Hexadecimal: 28ad - Two-Eight-A-D
Simple, huh?
Daniel
Re:I don't know the answer, but don't use "and"! (Score:3, Informative)
159.34 is "one hundred and fifty nine point three four".
You'll only hear Americans and children who are just learning about decimals say "point thirty four" in the UK.