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antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Should be single syllables to speak. Nil, bit, pair, few.

15 is a few few. 12 is few nil.

But for more than 2 digits, I think we need something better than just spewing digits. I would propose a vowel suffix for the higher digits. Y, O, and A. So 63 becomes few-y few few, and 64 is Bit-Y or “bitty”. Don’t need to say the nils after. 65 is Bitty bit. 255 is FewO FewY few few, followed by 256 which is Bitta.

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WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Alright, you have had enough. Pass me the blunt.

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Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Smart, I like the shorter words. And for the suffixes your basically picking based on the digits position from the left? So you suggest the suffixes:

Place suffix

1 place

4 place

16 place Y

64 place O

256 place A

I believe we’d have to continue a bit longer and maybe also have a suffix for 4th place? I would suggest using both prefixes and suffixes, maybe in this order:

Place suffix prefix

1 place

4 place A

16 place A A

64 place O A

256 place Y A

1024th place O

4096th place A O

… And so on, you can probably see how you could keep going in order to express any number up to 16777216. After that we might have to start using two letter prefixes/suffixes like “la”, “ro” or whatever

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Place	suffix	prefix
1 place
4 place		A
16 place	A	A
64 place	O	A
256 place	Y	A
1024th place		O
4096th place	A	O