| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
The longest english words that can ever appear in hex numbers are: ACCEDED, BACCAE, BEEF, DECADE, DEFACE, EFFACED, FACADE, FADED, FEED. This list is incomplete but includes the longest ones. /Eric
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 100.1 | SPRITE::OSMAN | Mon Sep 30 1985 20:13 | 13 | ||
If we stretch things a little, and allow "0" to mean "O", then the
following words are also possible (again, an incomplete list):
ABODE, ADOBE, COCOA, COFFEE (interesting pair!), DECODE,
DOODAD, FEOFFEE (what does it mean ?), OBOE
If anyone really wants a complete list, do this::
$ search sprite::user3:[osman.words]%z.txt -
g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z /match=nor
/Eric
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| 100.2 | AJAX::CALLAS | Tue Oct 01 1985 16:53 | 3 | ||
Why not stretch things a little more and allow "1" to mean "I"? Jon | |||||
| 100.3 | SUMMIT::NOBLE | Wed Oct 02 1985 12:37 | 13 | ||
Hey, this is fun... 0 could be used for O, 1 could be used for I, 2 could be used for Z, 5 could be used for S, 6 could be used for G, 7 could be used for T, 8 could be used for B. - (TIC) | |||||
| 100.4 | SPRITE::OSMAN | Wed Oct 02 1985 13:50 | 14 | ||
Well, some of the longest words possible if 1 is I (gee maybe 1 should be l instead of I), are: ABIDED, ACACIA, ACEDIA, ACIDIC, BABIED, BECCAFICO (what's it mean?), BIOCIDE, BOCACCIO, BODICE, CABBIE, CADDICE, COCCOID, CICADA, DECIDED, DEICIDE, DIACIDIC, DIODE, EDIFICE, IODIDE, OFFICE Note that BECCAFICO would not usually appear on a VAX since it's more than 8 letters ! O.K. First person to spot a sentence in the pid column of SHOW SYSTEM wins a free access violation. /Eric | |||||
| 100.5 | HPSCAD::ALTMAN | BARB | Thu Sep 27 1990 22:26 | 5 | |
Making words in hex was used in the VENUS debug as a way to check the outcome of simulation runs - the tests were set up to put 900D900D (read "GOODGOOD") if the test passed. Anything else was failure. Several phrases were used as input vectors. I remember overhearing, "I don't know what happened. I put DEADBEEF in R3 and got F00DFACE out!" | |||||
| 100.6 | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Tue Oct 02 1990 21:22 | 1 | |
I once had a program ACCVIO at PC 0000DEAD. | |||||
| 100.7 | ABADFACE | STAR::CANTOR | Diginymic name: D2E C0. | Sun Oct 07 1990 15:28 | 0 |
| 100.8 | TKOV51::DIAMOND | This note is illegal tender. | Mon Oct 08 1990 02:26 | 2 | |
The word C0EDBABE was seen recently on Usenet (in an example of
a programming error that changed it into DEADBEEF).
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