On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:58:45 +0100, rumours say that Peter Otten
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>By the way, does anyone know the Greek name for 36?
triakontahexadecimal would be a nice compromise of greek and the
"hexadecimal" convention of having six before ten -- "ÎÎÎ" ("hexi") is
six, "ÎÎÎÎ" ("deka") is ten, "ÏÏÎÎÎÎÎÏÎ" ("triakonta") is thirty.
I
think in ancient Greek sometimes units came before tens, just like in
German (another similarity is the verb in the end of the sentence, as
Mark Twain also noted sometime in a humourous article AFAIR.)
In current Greek hexadecimal is "ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÏÎ" ("dekaexadikon").
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