Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering...

[Douglas Otis <dotis () mail-abuse org>]

On Oct 11, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:54:03 BST, Per Gregers Bilse said:
>
> > The problem is that from and including A we can't talk about the  
> > damned things any more -- we resort to spelling out each number,  
> > with no inherent and natural feel for what we're talking about.
> >
> > An A380 has a maximum take-off weight of around 24E (two-four-E)  
> > tonnes.
> > An A380 has a maximum take-off weight of around 590 (five hundred  
> > and ninety) tonnes.
>
> I've seen somebody pronounce C48C as 'ceety four hundred and eighty  
> cee' - and the person listening grokked it.  aety, beety, ceety,  
> deety, eety, effty. aety and eighty are a bit too similar,  
> unfortunately.

There is also a convention defined at-

'x' prefix/suffix convention for pronouncing hexadecimal numbers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal

-Doug