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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
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Subject: Re: Venerean Sexadecimal?!
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Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 18:02:12 EST
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Richard Carnes (quoting Knuth) is of course correct in pointing out that
the word 'hexadecimal' mixes a Greek and a Latin stem.  But what says
that's wrong?  The idea that they shouldn't be mixed was invented out of
the blue in the seventeenth century, when English was busily coining words.
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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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