pentadecimal en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Hellenic *pénkʷe Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte) Ancient Greek πεντᾰ- (pentă-)lbor. English penta- English decimal English pentadecimal From penta- + decimal.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Based on the number 15; using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D and E.
Kleene [13] uses a similar approach, based on Turing machine encodings over an alphabet of fifteen symbols, which are then translated into pentadecimal numbers.
1980 April, Norman H Cohen, “Gödel numbers: a new approach to structured programming”, in ACM SIGPLAN Notices:
Synonyms
quindecimal · base 15 (based on 15)