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[icca]

dspace, this might be most relevant to you

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[anonymous]

Well, when reading binary out loud, we use the base-ten-originated words. ie, 101 is "five," not "four and one" or "one zero one" or "one hundred and one." Same goes for hexadecimal - but in practice, since there's way more confusion potential with hex (or octal) than binary, it tends to get spelled out digit by digit. That said, in computer-stuff, numbers usually represent some kind of arbitrary data, or characters, etc, and not numerical values per se.

[dspace]

Either say what the number would be in base 10, or say each digit from left to right.

111 in binary is either: 7 or "one one one"

[icca]

Okay, so in my base 7 example, we'd say 12 or "one five"? Makes sense!