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Spoken Binary (and Hexadecimal)

1 pointsby hsribeialmost 8 years ago

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hsribeialmost 8 years ago
I found this after coming up with my own #spokenDSL for binary at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ttobbec&#x2F;rubble" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ttobbec&#x2F;rubble</a> (pt-BR).<p>I found mental math became a lot easier after practicing it a little bit.<p>Might be a good way to teach kids binary. Tell them nothing about bases, conversions, or anything, just give them decimal numbers with a different name, wait for the phonetic patterns to take hold, then show them what&#x27;s behind it.<p>Urbit&#x27;s Hoon also takes the approach of coming up with phonetics for ASCII symbols, which I find great. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cgyarvin&#x2F;urbit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;doc&#x2F;book&#x2F;3-syntax.markdown" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cgyarvin&#x2F;urbit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;doc&#x2F;book&#x2F;3-syn...</a>