I have had a private scheme for pronouncing binary for about twenty years. It's based on run-length encoding; runs of 1s are consonants and runs of 0s are (sometimes postnasalized) vowels. 123,456 in binary is (I think!) 11110001001000000, and I pronounce that "pah-keh-keen", and spell it "pakekin". 0=i, 00=e, 000=a, 0000=o, 00000=u, 000000=in, 0000000=en ... 0^11=uni ... 1=k, 11=ch, 111=t, 1111=p, 11111=s, 111111=g, 1111111=j, 11111111=d, 111111111=b, 1111111111=z, 1^11=sk -- this sequence is harder to extend than the 0-runs. On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, well, this is not new, a certain guy in France invented something to pronounce
hexadecimal number, called base bibi-binaire, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syst%C3%A8me_Bibi-binaire
The author is Boby Lapointe, mostly known for singing and not mathematics, he appeared in this film :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcrdt_bobby-lapointe-framboise_news singing a very funny song about 'framboise' the nick name of his friend Françoise. but this is another story.
He patented his findings in 1968, I could not find a proper translation for the original article, sorry.
Best regards, Simon Plouffe
2015-04-23 6:40 GMT+02:00 Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com>:
Scroll down to the bottom for the proposal itself, although the video is good, too.
But surely someone's done something like this before?
http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-to-pronounce-hexadecimal/
-- Thane Plambeck tplambeck@gmail.com http://counterwave.com/ _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
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