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Post by fcg710647 on Aug 30, 2015 18:31:23 GMT -8
"Meh" is hilarious hahaha Did I mention fusing three and six to give "thrix" for eighteen? I prefer to keep the English words to avoid confusing people; fourteen = 2*7 and fifteen = 3*5 still. I could even fuse six and seven and make the word "sieven" for forty-two. 100(dq.) is square sieven and 100(Od.) is square thrix lol; "doh eight", or twenty, is thrix two in Od. and P in a base above 20 for me.
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Post by Buffoonery on Aug 31, 2015 12:09:16 GMT -8
Meh is a little weirdly written isn't it eh? When you read it, you think, "meh, it's nothing". But it has to be a "may" sound without spelling a word we already use. I suppose "mae" might be better, yeah I'm gonna stick with mae. - Grrrr, I'm really starting to dislike "do"/"doh" more and more. Trying to think of a new name for it... - fusing a three and six? what number would that represent? From what I see, 9 is the halfway point right? So, the letters t, r, U, H, C, A, J, N and 0 would be on the other side of 9. So if you count from 9, 3 letters and 6 letters up, are you thinking of calling those letters, U or A "thrix"? Sorry, I think I misunderstood.
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Post by fcg710647 on Sept 1, 2015 17:57:58 GMT -8
I wrote that thrix stands for eighteen because it's 3*6, or 10(Od.) Sieven (fusing six and seven) is 6*7 = forty-two = 10(Dq.) Sieven and thrix can be used analogous to the word score for twenty. 108(decimal) is five score and eight, six thrix, or two sieven and twenty-four.
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Post by Buffoonery on Sept 10, 2015 16:04:36 GMT -8
What would you call the numbers in between? "t, r, U, H, C, A, J, and N" It'd be interesting to make up some.
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Post by fcg710647 on Sept 13, 2015 17:26:29 GMT -8
For higher bases I have to include the case in the enunciation; J is sixteen but j is twenty-three so I have to say "big J" or "small J," "upper case" and "lower case" are much too long lol How about alphadecimal? So named because of 0-9 and A-Z usage, although those aren't my symbols. I could say 1/7 is "zero point big T recurring" because it's 0.TTTTTT.... in base thirty-six xD
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Post by fcg710647 on Sept 13, 2015 17:35:49 GMT -8
(fail) That's five sevenths, not one.
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Post by Buffoonery on Sept 13, 2015 17:41:27 GMT -8
That would work. However, the side effect would be that all of them would be 2 syllables. So if you had a long string of numbers, like say for a phone number, it would be: "six Oh four, eight big-J small-J, nine big-U big-H, big-N" However, for the octadecimal with only the 8 new digits, it would be: "four eight nine, T R J, two eight eight A." So now that's all fine until we run into the "A", it sounds like eight, so maybe as you were saying before, we could say them with a Spanish pronunciation. "eight eight Ah" Yeah, I guess I can see that.
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Post by Buffoonery on Sept 13, 2015 17:47:35 GMT -8
A lot of languages us "Ah" as their letter A. Then it gets confusing when they say I as "ee" and E as "aee" This creates a cycle of confusion if they all switch. E sounds like A, I sounds like E. But so long as you don't change E and I, I think your okay, just sticking with the A change to "Ah".
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Post by fcg710647 on Sept 13, 2015 18:02:16 GMT -8
I'm glad I can avoid I, E, and O up through twenty-four, eighteen was still my favorite among stuff below thirty.
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Post by Buffoonery on Sept 16, 2015 23:59:04 GMT -8
Haha, yeah, that'd be a nightmare.
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Post by fcg710647 on Sept 17, 2015 11:04:52 GMT -8
There are lots of possible conventions; "big E" or E is twenty-four when I use bases that high; so that's two syllables, and it's three in decimal, unless you say "two four," in dozenal it would be "two zero" or "two dozen" or "two doh" so it still can't be one syllable. Big bases partly compensate for the extra syllables per digit by needing fewer digits for the same numbers.
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Post by Buffoonery on Sept 17, 2015 18:01:56 GMT -8
I see what you mean, it's more information being conveyed. Saying "big E" could be saying the same sum as "twen-ty", so it's equal in effort at that point.
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Post by fcg710647 on Sept 18, 2015 14:20:52 GMT -8
I wonder why we named "seven" to already have two syllables, even though it's one digit in a base as small as 8, and I'm not sure if shortening it to "sev" as you have done from eleven to "el" would be so great, "el" is already the Spanish word used to identify any masculine noun (el arbol, el piso, el futuro, etc.)
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Post by fcg710647 on Sept 18, 2015 22:09:26 GMT -8
Oh, you have "elv"... does that take longer to pronounce the "v", to make sure it doesn't sound like "elf"?
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Post by Buffoonery on Oct 2, 2015 1:14:40 GMT -8
0: naught; nil 7: sept; sev d: dec E: elv; elf Elf is German for eleven.
but I'm still trying to work on a name for 10... "doh" is bothering me. I want something that's a clean and easy prefix so that I can say 11-1E easily.
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