User talk:Michael Chuquet/Hexadecimal billion (suite)
This discussion of the significance of the term "one billion hexadecimal" had been established at the origin between the user IP 81.57.112.41 (later called user:Michael Chuquet, that's me) and Ian, user:Icairns on the user talk page of "Binary prefix". The contents of this talk (17 Aug – 3 Sep 2004) were transferred on a "archieved" page called Closed talk: section Hexadecimal Billion in Talk:Binary prefix.
 
I summary my point of view.
The hexadecimal billion equalizes sixteen power ten according to Michael Florencetime (page on fr.wikipedia.org).
Myself, Michael Chuquet, I approve this definition of the "hexadecimal billion", since it is (1024 x 1024) x (1024 x 1024).
The hexadecimal numbers should be grouped modernly (surprisingly, however correct-proves) by five digits.
For example: The internal 64 bits bus, that's 2 power 64 or F FFFFF FFFFF FFFFF units and the zero. "Sixteen trillion" hexadecimal units.
Thus sixteen power six equal 16 777 216, also equal 4096 power four, is "sixteen million hexadecimal", written for example: "0x 10 00000"
This modern hexadecimal numeration supports the use of the original long scale in the decimal numeration.
Michael Chuquet 03:19, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)