Re: Two Thousand and Eight

ebenZEROONE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Hactar) wrote:

>In article <693ccqF2uett5U3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Greg Goss  <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> Wouldn't that be "two kibi minus forty"?  You've got to be careful
>> around naturally disambiguated numbers.
>
>When I turned 32, I wrote my friend and told him I'd say I was 0x20,
>because that sounded better.  His wife didn't get it, but I'll cut her
>some slack since she was a non-English-speaker.

I've always wondered at the leading 0 used for this context by
C-speakers.  Why can't you go directly into the x?

PL/Iers use x quote number quote.
I forget which language I picked up a trailing lowercase H to
designate hex.
-- 
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27