I’m more than a little annoyed with IBM. They’ve made my life a little bit harder.

I’ll explain why.

The majority of IBM employees in the 60s were geeks of gargantuan proportions. Massive be-speckled,  Star Trek debating, quantum physics understanding nerds. This in itself is not a bad thing if it weren’t for their intrinsic inability to get laid. You see this affected the naming process of the numeral system they invented, now known as hexadecimal code.

Hexadecimal is a bastardisation of Latin and Greek. “Hexa” is the Greek for “six” while “decimal” is derived from the Latin for “tenth”. So why didn’t they just use the Latin “sexa” for “six”? Quite simply because this word reminded them of something they’d only read about. It scared them.
And why does this enrage me so? Well, I could’ve written some witty puns on the word “sex”, referring as it does to the act of sexual intercourse. Instead you’ve been subjected to this rather tedious and not entirely accurate history lesson.

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