Re: On Binary Digits

To cope with this problem some workers have devised their own
conventions of writing and pronouncing such numbers. A system in use
at the Bell Telephone Laboratories would set off the above figure in
groups of three digits:
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    11,110,101,000
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and would then pronounce each group of three (or less) separately as
its decimal equivalent. The first binary group, 11, is the equivalent
of the decimal 3; the second, 110, of the decimal 6; the third, 101,
of the decimal 5. (000 is zero in any notation.) The above would then
be read, "Three, six, five, zero."