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Hex Triplet Words
- bhrgunatha 4y agoSimilar possibility for guitar tunings. I once looked for faux 12-string guitar tunings and "caged cabbage", "faded feedbag" and "defaced badge" were my favourites.
- nagonago 4y agoAlso check out this one: https://hexwords.netlify.app/ https://hexwords.netlify.app/ More words, and searchable by text and color!
- ggm 4y agoIn english. Absolutely a useful subset of all strings, but by no means exhaustive!
- kabdib 4y agoYou can use numbers to extend the range a bit (0=O, 1=L, 6=G, 5=S). I used "0xdebac1e" as a magic number for a (terrible) file format once, no one noticed. Probably helped that my constant was declared byte-reversed...
- JoshTriplett 4y agoWhat was the file format?
- watchdogtimer 4y agoThere's also leet speak's 3=E and 7=T.
- dahart 4y agoThere’s a long history of readable & funny magic numbers in file formats[1] especially 0xcafebabe and 0xdeadbeef[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#In_files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#In_... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadbeef https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadbeef And yea, if you allow numbers, the list of words you can make is pretty long, I get 364 words from this (even much longer if you allow both I and L, but I pruned those because I mapped both to the number 1): < /usr/share/dict/words perl -ne 'print if m/^[abcdefilzsbtgo]*$/ && m/^........$/;' | perl -ne 'print if !(m/i/ && m/l/);' | tr 'ilzstgo' '1125790' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' | perl -ne 'print "0x$_"' | column
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- HelloNurse 4y agoI'm baffed by the shortness of the word list. Three letter words would be useful and would allow compounds; an ace deserves to die in bed.
- jstanley 4y ago> Hexadecimal triplets are six-digit hex codes OK, agreed. > Hex triplets aren’t always six digits I'm confused how both of these things can be true? Are you saying that the hex triplets you're interested in are six-digit codes, but that in the general case you can of course pick any 3 numbers, write them in hex, and call them a hex triplet, even if the constituents are longer or shorter than 2 digits?
- zokier 4y agoFeeded is a word? Not fed?
- SeanLuke 4y agoIt is not. He used Wiktionary as his data source. Unfortunately.
- notresidenter 4y agoMakes me think of https://nedbatchelder.com/text/hexwords.html https://nedbatchelder.com/text/hexwords.html
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- SeanLuke 4y agodeaced: not a word. Wiktionary isn't the most reliable of sources. Googling for "deaced" basically yields two things: (1) Wiktionary's, erm, unique entry, and (2) Suggestions for how to rearrange the letters in the scrabble tiles "deaced" to form a real word.
- thehappypm 4y agoMy favorite version of solitaire requires setting aside the aces. I deace the deck before I play.
- aaroninsf 4y agoIt's an example of a valid agglutinative word in English, by their nature many aren't enumerated in conventional dictionaries, though more commonly used ones often appear the the definitions for their primary roots. See also despade, declub, and dediamond (though with the regard to the latter I prefer deadamantize).
- SeanLuke 4y agoThe claimed definition of "deaced" is "deceased", as an adjective. It's not meant to be a combination of morphenes -- it's just gibberish. Your proposed definition is different from what's being discussed here. Regardless: recognized compound verbs and gerunds are listed in dictionaries (like "desensitize" or "delist"). What you're describing are informal coinage invented to and restricted to a limited subpopulation. I'd never heard those terms in my entire life until brought up in this discussion. I'd not call those words unless they showed up in something more authoritative than Wiktionary and HN.
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- Ebree 4y agoIf you use imagination you can find more: 4be9f8 1ce461 ad2022 caffee cabba9 abbad0(n) babe45 And foreign deddab( grandpa oak) bedaca abadae dabeda