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>From: Antoine Leca <Antoine.Leca@renault.fr>
>To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
>Cc: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
>Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 01:30:12 -0800 (GMT-0800)
>Subject: Re: dozenal and hexadecimal digits
>
>Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com wrote:
>>
>> Robert Lozyniak wrote:
>> > Are there characters for DUODECIMAL DIGITs TEN and ELEVEN, or
>> > HEXADECIMAL DIGITs TEN thru FIFTEEN? (Besides LATIN CAPITAL
>> > LETTERs A thru F)
>>
>> Yes: LATIN SMALL LETTERs A thru F. :-)
>
>To name a few others:
>GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA to DIGAMMA (or STIGMA)
>CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A to IE
>etc. :-)
>
>
>> And, by the way, do you know whether base-4 numbers have a special name?
>
>zéro
>un
>deux
>trois
>
>:-)
>
>By the way, I took advantage that in French numbers up to 16 have a special
>name to design a system to "read" hexadecimal numbers (instead of spelling
>when a digit from ten to fifteen appears):
>
>0 zéro
>1 un
>2 deux
>3 trois
>4 quatre
>5 cinq
>6 six
>7 sept
>8 huit
>9 neuf
>A dix
>B onze
>C douze
>D treize
>E quatorze
>F quinze
>10 seize
>11 seize-et-un (that is the most difficult to remember)
>12 seize-deux
>1B seize-et-onze
>1F seize-quinze
>20 vingt
>2A vingt-dix
>30 trente
>6A soixante-dix
>70 septante (better than soixante-seize!)
>80 quatre-vingt ou octante ou huitante
>90 nonante
>A0 dixante
>B0 onzante
>C0 douzante
>D0 treizante
>E0 quatorzante
>F0 quinzante
>100 cent
>101 cent-un
>110 cent-seize
>1000 mille
>10000 seize mille
>
>But I never find myself to use it: habits are too much engraved,
>and 71 is definitively "soixante-et-onze", and 18 is "dix-huit"
>instead of "seize-huit" to me.
>
>
>Antoine
Good. There ought to be such a system. Just specify whether you are counting in decimal or hex.
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