On Oct 11, 2006, at 9:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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