Senidenary

The Personal Page of Harold Absalom


The word “hexadecimal,” which has crept into our language even more recently, is a mixture of Greek and Latin stems; more proper terms would be “senidenary” or “sedecimal” or even “sexadecimal,” but the latter is perhaps too risqué for computer programmers.

- Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms