I am developing a naturalistic way of naming hexadecimal numbers in English that parallels the existing decimal system. What a similar attempt on bzarg.com calls "unwieldy" I call "spoken FEC".
The names for ten through fifteen are largely reduced from terms borrowed from another language or from a metaphor within English. They start with A through F because those are the existing hexadecimal digits.
| Hex | Dec | Name | Etymology |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 10 | ash | Amharic, Arabic, and Hebrew words for ten |
| B | 11 | ||
| C | 12 | carn | From carton, referring to carton of a dozen eggs |
| D | 13 | dreight | German dreizehn; rhymes with freight |
| E | 14 | erb | Maltese erbatax |
| F | 15 | fleven | Modification of seven seen in HBO's Silicon Valley, interpreted as the counterpart to "seven" in the second pass of counting to eight on fingers |
| 10 | 16 | steen | contraction of sixteen |
| 11-1F | 17-31 | onesteen, twosteen, thirsteen, foursteen, fifsteen, sixsteen, sevensteen, eighsteen, ninesteen, ashsteen, ..., carnsteen, dreighsteen, ..., flevensteen | |
| 20 | 32 | twensy | Contraction of steen by analogy with -ty from ten |
| 21-24 | 32-36 | twensy-one, twensy-two, twensy-three, twensy-four | |
| 30-F0 | 64-240 | thirsy, forsy, fifsy, sixsy, sevensy, eighsy, ninesy, ashsy, ..., carnsy, dreighsy, ..., flevensy | |
| 100 | 256 | one page | In computers using a 6502 processor, a "page" is a 256-byte unit from xx00 through xxFF |
| 101 | 257 | one page one | |
| 102 | 258 | one page two | |
| 200 | 512 | two page | |
| 400C | 16396 | forsy page carn | |
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