27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
9:22 a.m.
On 7/27/2006 at 11:58 AM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Yech!
Maybe someone's not addressing the right problem. One of the problems with
verbalizing scientific notation is the clumsiness of saying "itimes 10 to
the". or "times 2 to the". I hereby propose a new pair of words,
"tep"
and "bip" for "times 10 to the" and "times 2 to the". So
instead of saying
"sixty-five k", you can now say "sixty-five tep three" with absolutely
no
abiguity. If you want the base-2 version, you could say "sixty-four bip
ten".
Just kidding,
Chuck