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I'm aware this is more of a StackOverflow question. If any of you are computer
programmers who speak Japanese: how does hexadecimal work? I mean the system
of numbers which is counted 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F. Do
you use Roman letters and Arabic numbers? Is it all in kanji?
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How does hexadecimal work in Japanese?
Given that the format 0x[0-9A-F] is baked into nearly every modern computer
language, there aren't any other options for representing them in text. But
there is still the question of pronouncing them.

I suspect the answer will depend on the individual company culture to some
extent.

At our company, the digits are pronounced in Japanese: ぜろ、いち、に... and the
letters are pronounced similarly to the English: ええ、びい、しい、でぃい、いい、えふ. One
oddball case is zero, which is mixed between ぜろ and まる. It's not even unusual
to have more than one pronunciation for zero used while reading off the same
number.

This actually causes a bit of confusion for those of us moving quickly between
the two systems, since the American side of the company uses a [phonetic
alphabet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_alphabet) when reading off
things like error codes. ie, the Japanese programmers will say "びい、いい、いい、えふ",
the Americans will say "bravo, echo, echo, fox".
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