Spoken Binary (and Hexadecimal)

or How to verbalize numbers in binary and hexadecimal.

Speaking numbers in most languages is based on powers of ten. This page defines how to speak numbers based on powers of two: spoken binary. As hexadecimal is base 24, spoken binary also serves as a spoken hexidecimal.

Spoken binary uses single sounds to represent various powers of two, simimlar to how spoken decimal uses the words "ten", "hundred", and "thousand".

To see how this system works and is defined, visit Spoken Binary Defined. For questions, suggestions and errors, email castedo@castedo.com.

IPA Key
SymbolSounds like
a"ah"
i"ee"
u"oo"

Counting

Decimal Hexadecimal Binary Phonetic (IPA)
000a
111i
2210u
3311ui
44100is
55101isi
66110isu
77111isui

Try different numbers

Type in any number, in any of the bases, or a type in a phonetic representation.

Decimal
Hexadecimal
Binary
Phonetic

Resymbolize

See the effect of using different symbols for difference binary numeral scales.

Powers of 2

DecimalHexadecimalPhonetic
11i
22u
44is
88us
1610ika
3220uka
6440iska
12880uska
256100ima
512200uma
1024400isma
2048800usma
40961000ika ma
81922000uka ma
163844000iska ma
327688000uska ma
6553610000ipa
13107220000upa
26214440000ispa
52428880000uspa
1048576100000ika pa
2097152200000uka pa
4194304400000iska pa
8388608800000uska pa
167772161000000ima pa
335544322000000uma pa
671088644000000isma pa
1342177288000000usma pa
26843545610000000ika ma pa
53687091220000000uka ma pa
107374182440000000iska ma pa
214748364880000000uska ma pa