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Create a new way to utter hexdecimal values up to 255 (0xFF) through monosyllables

As the project involve to deal with a lot of Unicode characters, through #5, the desire to have a more harmonious way to utter terms like U+0042 become more and more important.

In short, this issue tracks the progresses to provide terms which ideally meet all the criteria of the specification provided in the dedicated section.

Specification

  • monosyllables: terms are unambiguous among other proposals while all being utterable as a single syllable
  • CVC trigrams: terms are all writable as a sequence of 3 graphemes with the form "consonant, vowel, consonant"
  • avoid conflict with existing terms used in traditional numerical systems (examples: six and ten)
  • follow logical progressions
  • bonus, if possible terms provides hints on some arithmetic/algebraic properties:
    • primes all follow a common pattern
    • multiple of 10 all follow a common pattern
    • multiple of 12 all follow a common pattern
    • multiple of 16 all follow a common pattern
    • multiple of 20 all follow a common pattern
    • odd/evens numbers follow a common pattern

Roadmap

  • list all existing terms used in miscellaneous cultures to name numbers with a CVC syllable.
    • go through all translations provided for numbers in Wiktionaries
      • [zero-twenty]
      • all tens (10, 20, 30…)
      • other powers of ten: hundred, thousand, lakh, million, billion…
    • go through all https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/
  • establish list of colliding terms in existing terminologies across cultural systems.
  • determine a satisfying terminology for the elaborated specification
    • create the specification
    • establish an algorithm to generate the list of terms mapping [0;255] which respect the above specification
  • take into account bonus constraints: use diacritics
    • primes all follow a common pattern
    • multiple of 10 all follow a common pattern
    • multiple of 12 all follow a common pattern
    • multiple of 16 all follow a common pattern
    • multiple of 20 all follow a common pattern
    • multiple of 60 all follow a common pattern
    • odd/evens numbers follow a common pattern
    • the central vowel cycles on five digits
    • the last vowel changes only when constant multiple is reached
  • make memorization flash cards

References

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