Today my five-year-old told me that when she was four, she thought that what came after ninety-nine was. tenty. You know, because seventy, eighty, ninety, tenty. At first I thought it was just funny and charming, but then I realized it was actually a really good idea. Tenty is only nonsensical if you're counting in base ten (or lower), but it makes total sense for higher bases. How do people usually read 0xA0? "A-zero"? How unimaginative! Let's read that "tenty" from now on! Here are some more examples of how to read hexadecimal in a non-boring way: 0xB3 is eleventy-three 0xCA is twelvety-ten 0xD9 is thirteenty-nine 0xEC is fourteenty-twelve 0xFF is fifteenty-fifteen 0xF04A is fifteenty hexathousand and forty-ten 0x4B2AC0AA is forty-eleven hexamillion...(read more) ...
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