Re: string.atoi and string.atol broken?

From: Christos (tzot_at_sil-tec.gr)
Date: 01/26/05


Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:51:19 +0200

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:58:45 +0100, rumours say that Peter Otten
<__peter__@web.de> might have written:

>By the way, does anyone know the Greek name for 36?

triakontahexadecimal would be a nice compromise of greek and the
"hexadecimal" convention of having six before ten -- "έξι" ("hexi") is
six, "δέκα" ("deka") is ten, "τριάκοντα" ("triakonta") is thirty. I
think in ancient Greek sometimes units came before tens, just like in
German (another similarity is the verb in the end of the sentence, as
Mark Twain also noted sometime in a humourous article AFAIR.)

In current Greek hexadecimal is "δεκαεξαδικόν" ("dekaexadikon").

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