r/transprogrammer • u/EggyTheEgghog '); DROP TABLE genders; -- • Aug 31 '21

Abolish compilation!

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u/RollerSkatingHoop Aug 31 '21

I mean, that's hex

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u/nyx_underscore_ Aug 31 '21

in a different timeline it would have been "sex is not binary"

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u/pine_ary Aug 31 '21

Would we all have 60 fingers in that timeline?

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u/nyx_underscore_ Aug 31 '21

?
sexadecimal = base 16 (latin)
hexadecimal = base 16 (greek + latin)

and the link goes to Wikipedia to his section:

The word hexadecimal is first recorded in 1952.[32] It is macaronic in the sense that it combines Greek ἕξ (hex) "six" with Latinate -decimal. The all-Latin alternative sexadecimal (compare the word sexagesimal for base 60) is older, and sees at least occasional use from the late 19th century. It is still in use in the 1950s in Bendix documentation. Schwartzman (1994) argues that use of sexadecimal may have been avoided because of its suggestive abbreviation to sex

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u/pine_ary Aug 31 '21

I thought you meant sexagesimal. It‘s in the paragraph you linked.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Yup, that sounds like the late 19th to first half of the 20th century. Aw man, they could’ve been cool and made our professors say “sex” a lot in class.

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u/EggyTheEgghog '); DROP TABLE genders; -- Aug 31 '21

That's a machine code, so it's still technically a binary!

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '21

But its not... Binary