[92780] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Oct 11 12:08:34 2006
To: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@networksignature.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:54:03 BST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:07:33 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:54:03 BST, Per Gregers Bilse said:
> The problem is that from and including A we can't talk about the
> damned things any more -- we resort to spelling out each number, with
> no inherent and natural feel for what we're taling about.
>
> An A380 has a maximum take-off weight of around 24E (two-four-E) tonnes.
> An A380 has a maximum take-off weight of around 590 (five hundred and ninety)
> tonnes.
I've seen somebody pronounce C48C as 'ceety four hundred and eighty cee' - and
the person listening grokked it. aety, beety, ceety, deety, eety, effty.
aety and eighty are a bit too similar, unfortunately.
The thousands/millions probably comes easier to those of us who did a lot
of octal work - the newcomers seem to like to clump hex numbers in clumps
of 2 and 4.
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