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How to Pronounce Hexadecimal Numbers
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evincarofautumn.blogspot.com
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evincarofautumn
on Sept 15, 2011
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groovy2shoes
on Sept 16, 2011
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Nice, but it skips over some of the more difficult-to-pronounce numerals: 0xc0..0xf0. Eleventex is obvious, but twelvtex is pushing it.
evincarofautumn
on Sept 17, 2011
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I thought it was obvious that they all have the same pronunciation as if they were separate words. Twelvetex is twelve tex, in amount and pronunciation alike.
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