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[Fwd: dozenal and hexadecimal digits]

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, May 12, 2000, 14:05
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Antoine Leca wrote:

[esnipage]

> By the way, I took advantage that in French numbers up to 16 have a special > name to design a system to "read" hexadecimal numbers (instead of spelling > when a digit from ten to fifteen appears): > > 0 zéro > 1 un > 2 deux > 3 trois > 4 quatre > 5 cinq > 6 six > 7 sept > 8 huit > 9 neuf > A dix > B onze > C douze > D treize > E quatorze > F quinze > 10 seize > 11 seize-et-un (that is the most difficult to remember) > 12 seize-deux > 1B seize-et-onze > 1F seize-quinze > 20 vingt > 2A vingt-dix > 30 trente > 6A soixante-dix > 70 septante (better than soixante-seize!) > 80 quatre-vingt ou octante ou huitante > 90 nonante > A0 dixante > B0 onzante > C0 douzante > D0 treizante > E0 quatorzante > F0 quinzante > 100 cent > 101 cent-un > 110 cent-seize > 1000 mille > 10000 seize mille > > But I never find myself to use it: habits are too much engraved, > and 71 is definitively "soixante-et-onze", and 18 is "dix-huit" > instead of "seize-huit" to me.
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