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!title Pronouncing Binary

My good friend Tim Conrad once told me the correct way to pronounce binary numbers.  It's a very simple system:

|0|''ooh''|
|1|''oon''|
|10|''twin''|
|11|''twoon''|
|100|''twindred''|
|101|''twindred-oon''|
|110|''twindred-twin''|
|111|''tindred-twoon''|
|1,000|''oon-twinsand''|
|1,001|''oon-twinsand-oon''|
|1,100|''oon-twinsand-twindred''|
|10,000|''twin-twinsand''|
|11,000|''twoon-twinsand''|
|100,000|''twindred-twinsand''|
|1,000,000|''oon-twillion''|
|10,101,101|''twin-twillion-twindred-oon-twinsand-twindred-oon''|

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!* Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:21:02, Aaron, "The Princess Bride" was right!
"Twoo wuv" is the correct way to describe a binary pairing.
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!* Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:57:58, Dave Rooney, re:"The Princess Bride" was right!
Inconceivable!
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!* Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:26:08, David Chelimsky, re:"The Princess Bride" was right!
I think that's "Incontheivable"
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!* Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:34:55, Peter Herndon, 
I do not think that is spelled the way you think it is spelled...

;)
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!* Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:21:41, Chris Noe, Hey, this doesn't scale
Twinsand
Twillion
.. then what?

Taking inspiration from base 10, everything beyond illion is more -illions with different prefixes. Must this degenerate into a sort of onomatopoeic: TiTwillion, TiTiTwillion, etc ?
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!* Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:01:33, Roland Kaufmann, Hexadecimal numbers
He didn't by any chance have a system for hexadecimal numbers too? It could come handy in reading Win32 error codes to my co-workers.
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!* Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:22:25, Rob Wehrli, Regarding Scale...
At some point, the "degeneration" of the syntax will "oohgle." :)

Take Care.

Rob!
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!* Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:41:23, Bill Mason, You say "twindred", I say .... "doblemiento"?
Since the decimal system has nomenclature sets that vary from language to language, are there also such equivalents for binary?
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