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Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Sunday, October 28, 2001, 4:20
From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
>Also, how does one count in hexadecimal in English? >One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ay, bee, cee, dee, >ee, eff, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, >seventeen, eighteen!, nineteen, aiteen!!, ... eighty!, ... aity!! (etc.)?
I would have [EI?"tin] and ["EItin] for <eighteen> and <ateen>[1], so that mightn't be a problem. But <eighty> and <aty> would be identical. You could use foreign letter names instead: eight, nine, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, digamma, ten... ;) *Muke! [1] Don't look at the vowels, I never know how to get them right. The main difference is yon stressing.

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Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...>
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