[92789] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas Otis)
Wed Oct 11 22:12:41 2006
In-Reply-To: <200610111607.k9BG7Xat006581@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:11:54 -0700
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 11, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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 talking 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.
There is also a convention defined at-
'x' prefix/suffix convention for pronouncing hexadecimal numbers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
-Doug
