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I see no reason this couldn't be applied to English. "-nz(e)", etc. is akin to "-teen", and beyond that it should be exactly the same, with septante/seventy, hu

I see no reason this couldn't be applied to English. "-nz(e)", etc. is akin to "-teen", and beyond that it should be exactly the same, with septante/seventy, huitante/eighty, and nonante/ninety being the popular English versions (unlike e.g. Metropolitan French). B78D: Eleven Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Thirteen See also Tolkien's famous hobbit's birthday party.

unfreezingly 7y ago
I love this system, but how do you deal with the ambiguity around "ten"? 9: nine A: ten? B: eleven ... 10: ten? 20: twenty 30: thirty
- molyss 7y ago
  A=ten, 10=onety, 11=onety-one, 1A=onety-ten, etc ? Edit: Or as suggested in the original link, A=Ten, 10=annty, 11=annty-one and 1A=annty-ten
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- dragontamer 7y ago
  9: nine A: ten B: eleven ... 10: hexTen 20: hexTwenty 30: hexThirty ... 100: hexHundred My issue is that 1000 is hexThousand, but when working with hex numbers, its far more logical to group them in 4s. 0x10000 is a number more deserving of a name than 0x1000. In effect, I want to call 0x10000 as "hex-thousand" (correlating to the number where 16-bits overflow). And 0x100000000 as "hex-million" (correlating to the 32-bit overflow number). Of course, that leaves 0x1000 and 0x1000000 as ambiguous.
  - smrq 7y ago
    I guess the language you're looking for is Japanese, then. (Or Chinese?) 1=一 ichi 10=十 juu 100=百 hyaku 1000=千 sen 1,0000=万 man 10,0000=十万 juuman 100,0000=百万 hyakuman 1000,0000=千万 senman 1,0000,0000=億 oku 1,0000,0000,0000=兆 chou 1,0000,0000,0000,0000=京 kei
  - kps 7y ago
    ‘Myriad’, via Greek¹. (Apparently though, ‘myria‐’ was a pre-SI metric prefix for ×10000⏨, so I'm afraid someone will come along and insist on ‘myribi‐’, and I'll have to smack them.) ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000#Name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000#Name
    - dragontamer 7y ago
      Interesting. Myriad shares similarities to "Million". So maybe Myriad / Biriad / Trilliad / Quadrilliad will scale into the higher orders. Hmm, maybe I'll make this a thing.
      - roywiggins 7y ago
        Not to be confused with the long-scale numbers: milliard/billiard/trilliard
- gowld 7y ago
  Following the French style: 10 is sixteen. 11 is sixteen one A is not ten in hexadecimal. "ten" always means 10 in any base. the number after "nine" is "deci".
vermilingua 7y ago
Pronounce 11,78D vs B78D.
- eslaught 7y ago
  As suggested in a cousin: onety-one thousand, seven hundred and eighty thirteen. Every word (phrase in the case of hundred/thousand) becomes strictly one digit, as opposed to normal English where e.g. "thirteen" is actually two digits.
  - vermilingua 7y ago
    But onety-one thousand isn’t strictly one digit, is it?
- MayeulC 7y ago
  From the grandparent: 11 78D seize-un mille sept cent octante-quatrorze. Or, in English: 11,78D Sixteen-one thousand seven hundred eighty fourteen.
- lucideer 7y ago
  Sixteen-one thousand, seven hundred and eighty fourteen As, from the original french comment: 1A = dix / ten 10 = seize / sixteen 11 = seize-et-un / sixteen-one Others have suggested 10 = onety instead of sixteen. This would be more consistent, but less idiomatic (onety is not a number in English, and hex is base sixteen).

unfreezingly 7y ago

I love this system, but how do you deal with the ambiguity around "ten"? 9: nine A: ten? B: eleven ... 10: ten? 20: twenty 30: thirty

molyss 7y ago
A=ten, 10=onety, 11=onety-one, 1A=onety-ten, etc ? Edit: Or as suggested in the original link, A=Ten, 10=annty, 11=annty-one and 1A=annty-ten
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dragontamer 7y ago
9: nine A: ten B: eleven ... 10: hexTen 20: hexTwenty 30: hexThirty ... 100: hexHundred My issue is that 1000 is hexThousand, but when working with hex numbers, its far more logical to group them in 4s. 0x10000 is a number more deserving of a name than 0x1000. In effect, I want to call 0x10000 as "hex-thousand" (correlating to the number where 16-bits overflow). And 0x100000000 as "hex-million" (correlating to the 32-bit overflow number). Of course, that leaves 0x1000 and 0x1000000 as ambiguous.
- smrq 7y ago
  I guess the language you're looking for is Japanese, then. (Or Chinese?) 1=一 ichi 10=十 juu 100=百 hyaku 1000=千 sen 1,0000=万 man 10,0000=十万 juuman 100,0000=百万 hyakuman 1000,0000=千万 senman 1,0000,0000=億 oku 1,0000,0000,0000=兆 chou 1,0000,0000,0000,0000=京 kei
- kps 7y ago
  ‘Myriad’, via Greek¹. (Apparently though, ‘myria‐’ was a pre-SI metric prefix for ×10000⏨, so I'm afraid someone will come along and insist on ‘myribi‐’, and I'll have to smack them.) ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000#Name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000#Name
  - dragontamer 7y ago
    Interesting. Myriad shares similarities to "Million". So maybe Myriad / Biriad / Trilliad / Quadrilliad will scale into the higher orders. Hmm, maybe I'll make this a thing.
    - roywiggins 7y ago
      Not to be confused with the long-scale numbers: milliard/billiard/trilliard
gowld 7y ago
Following the French style: 10 is sixteen. 11 is sixteen one A is not ten in hexadecimal. "ten" always means 10 in any base. the number after "nine" is "deci".

vermilingua 7y ago

Pronounce 11,78D vs B78D.

eslaught 7y ago
As suggested in a cousin: onety-one thousand, seven hundred and eighty thirteen. Every word (phrase in the case of hundred/thousand) becomes strictly one digit, as opposed to normal English where e.g. "thirteen" is actually two digits.
- vermilingua 7y ago
  But onety-one thousand isn’t strictly one digit, is it?
MayeulC 7y ago
From the grandparent: 11 78D seize-un mille sept cent octante-quatrorze. Or, in English: 11,78D Sixteen-one thousand seven hundred eighty fourteen.
lucideer 7y ago
Sixteen-one thousand, seven hundred and eighty fourteen As, from the original french comment: 1A = dix / ten 10 = seize / sixteen 11 = seize-et-un / sixteen-one Others have suggested 10 = onety instead of sixteen. This would be more consistent, but less idiomatic (onety is not a number in English, and hex is base sixteen).