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It's not linguistically correct for Nth to be used with a binary number, right? It's not like we would say 0b10nd, would we? I mean, I get the intent with Debi
by zevisert 1y ago
It's not linguistically correct for Nth to be used with a binary number, right? It's not like we would say 0b10nd, would we?
I mean, I get the intent with Debian's post, and I think it's fun! I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10
- lotyrin 1y agoI don't think this happens enough for us to be able to derive descriptive usage, never mind prescriptive rules.
- phyzome 1y agoAll that matters is the last digit, so "th" is correct. In binary you would just have _th and _st.
- jibal 1y ago100000th is syntactically correct. That it's semantically binary rather than decimal is the joke. > I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10 No, of course not ... why would there be? We don't say oneth, twoth, or threeth, we say first (1st), second (2nd), and third (3rd). For all other digits and numbers not ending with 1, 2, or 3 we use th. So zeroth (0th), tenth (10th), hundredth (100th), hundred thousandth (100000th). Stick 0b in front and it's 0b100000th.