Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

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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