language-agnostic - 用英语读取十六进制值

Question

多年来，我一直在逐位阅读十六进制，现在厌倦了将需要超过 16 位的数字的十六进制值翻译成英文。是否存在将十六进制转换为英语的更优雅的形式？

在英语中，存在将十进制值转换为英语的简单系统。十进制10是英文“十”，十进制57是英文“五十七”，十进制32767是“三万二千七百六十七”等等。

据我所知，不存在用英语优雅地表示十六进制的系统。十六进制10是英文“一零”或“一哦”，十六进制F0ED是“eff oh eee dee”，十六进制30F538B9310是英文“三哦eff五三八蜜蜂九三一哦”。需要更多位的值变得越来越难以翻译。有时将其转换为十进制等价物以获得优雅的英文翻译，因此十六进制 10 变为“十六”。

谢谢你的帮助。

Answer 1

这是在 Knuth - 谷歌搜索短语“vybong bysanton”(自从阅读它以来一直在我的脑海中)产生 this slashdot comment和回应:

In section 4.1 of The Art of Computer Programming, Donald Knuth describes:

...a prominent Swedish-American civil engineer named John W. Nystrom [who] decided to... [devise] a complete system of numeration, weights, and measures based on radix-16 arithmetic. He wrote, "I am not afraid, or do not hesitate, to advocate a binary system of arithmetic and metrology. I know I have nature on my side; if I do not succeed to impress upon you its utility and great importance to mankind, it will reflect that much less credit on our generation, upon our scientific men and philosophers." Nystrom devised special means for pronouncing hexadecimal numbers; for example, [0xC0160] was to be read "vybong, bysanton." His entire system was called the Tonal System, and it is described in J. Franklin Inst. 46 (1863), 263-275, 337,348, 402-407.

也许你应该得到这个问题
那个杂志，试一试。

(回复:)

quoted from http://www.monmouth.com/~colonel/tonal.html [monmouth.com]

From Recreations in Mathematics, by H. E. Licks (Van Nostrand, 1917):

John W. Nystrom of Philadelphia devised about fifty years ago the tonal system&quot of numeration in which 16 is the base instead of 10 as in the decimal system. The numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., were called An, De, Ti, Go, etc., and new characters were devised for 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. This system embraced also a new division of the year into 16 months, these having the names Anuary, Debrian, Timander, Gostus, Suvenary, Bylian, Ratamber, Mesidius, Nictorary, Kolumbian, Husander, Victorius, Lamboary, Polian, Fylander, Tonborious, the first two letters of each month being the names of the sixteen numerals.

这有点不准确。数字 9 用于 10，根据制作数字的原则
8 个或更多的看起来像倒置的 16 个补语；和一个新人物
是为 9 设计的。12 的名字是 Vy，而不是 Vi；我相信 meth、nith、vyth 和
第 tonth 个月被命名为 Mesudius、Nictoary、Vyctorius 和 Tonborius。

一年开始于冬至，也就是 Anth of Anuary。每个月都有 tonra 天
除了 Debrian、Gostus 和 Lamboary，他们只有 tonby，但 Debrian 有额外的一天
闰年。

吨的权力是:吨，桑，磨，奉。这些可以用作前缀来表示
乘法或作为表示除法的后缀。例如，一天分为吨
(十六)蒂姆，蒂姆变成吨蒂姆顿，蒂姆顿变成吨蒂姆桑。