In the show Silicon Valley T.J. Miller’s character, Erlich Bachman, asks someone “… what nine times F is. It’s fleventy-five.” The answer is 0x87. It sounds like it should be 0xF5, so Tim Babb took this and made a whole scheme for pronouncing hex numbers. Before that, 0xF5 would have been “fimtek five” in S.R. Rogers’ 2007 scheme, “fytonsu” in John W. Nystrom’s 1859 scheme, and “frosty five” in Robert Magnusson’s 1968 scheme: None of these took off, which is just f...
