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From: tedk@ihuxv.ATT.COM (Kekatos)
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Subject: Re: reading hexadecimal out loud, etc
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 15:01:35 EDT
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In article <5486@utcsri.UUCP> greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith) writes:
>In article <1632@chinet.UUCP> editor@chinet.UUCP (Alex Zell) writes:
>>Whenever I came to an entry such as "B000" or "F000" I would pronounce
>>"boo" or "foo"  and would be corrected by son Pete: "No, you should
>>always spell it out "ef-zero-zero-zero" or we may end up with errors."
>>(You have no idea how rigid very young teenagers can be.  "What's right
>>is right.")
>
>You should always spell it out, fox-zero-zero-zero, or baker-zero-zero-zero,
>if you don't want to end up with errors.
>
>Greg Smith     University of Toronto      UUCP: ..utzoo!utcsri!greg

Hexadecimal is always read digit by digit. Trailing zeros are sometimes read
as "hundred" or "thousand" (such as "F000" equals "ef-thousand"). 
Having worked in Technical support for three years, I can tell you
many stories of computer error due to similar "reading" mis-understandings.


Remember:

0 = "zero"

O = "oh"





Ted G. Kekatos
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