OOC: Quick hexadecimal puzzle!
Mar. 18th, 2010 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sythyryOOC -- I want a word (preferably English, though I'd take other languages if I had to) which can be spelled in hexadecimal numbers and ends in UL or LU (for Unsigned Long). For example, CUL: it's one hex digit (C) plus UL, and is a word in French. Unfortunately, it's a rude word, and I want this to go in a technical manual, so I'd prefer something that's not rude.
Hex digits: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F. You can use, say, 0 for o and 7 for t, but the best answers will not rely too much on this.
Bonus points: if the 0x symbol that goes in front of it makes it funnier, like 0xBEEF for a hex (signed integer) literal, or, um, 0xCUL even.
Reward: The one I like best will get into a formal language manual as an example of an unsigned long integer literal!
Hex digits: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F. You can use, say, 0 for o and 7 for t, but the best answers will not rely too much on this.
Bonus points: if the 0x symbol that goes in front of it makes it funnier, like 0xBEEF for a hex (signed integer) literal, or, um, 0xCUL even.
Reward: The one I like best will get into a formal language manual as an example of an unsigned long integer literal!
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Date: 2010-03-18 02:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-18 03:25 pm (UTC)CAUL
That's pretty much all I've got.
(there's a bash-fUL joke in here somewhere ;P)
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Date: 2010-03-18 03:43 pm (UTC)b0a7ful
bef0ul
tac7ful
b077leful
baleful
d0leful
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Date: 2010-03-18 06:35 pm (UTC)(I asked
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Date: 2010-03-18 05:12 pm (UTC)(Of course, after a little more research, turns out the -LU English word list has been pretty much exhausted. I did a dictionary regex search and it came back with:
Eesh.)
Is a phrase okay?
Date: 2010-03-18 05:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-18 05:32 pm (UTC)Search for the string "^([abcdefizstgo]+|[abcdeflzstgo]+)(ul|lu)$" (without the quotes), with case insensitivity, and you will see every word in their dictionary that can be constructed from the original criteria - using '1' as either an i or an L but not simultaneously both.
It returns 21 matches, of which 7AC7FUL, F157FUL, BA1EFUL (already suggested), 91EEFUL, D157A57EFUL, BEF0UL and 50UL seem to have the most potential (though many of those are l33t salad). I find the use of 1=L D157A57EFUL, so I would have to go with one of the latter two.
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Date: 2010-03-18 07:11 pm (UTC)(Shush! I'm not talking about that!)
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Date: 2010-03-18 08:06 pm (UTC)0xAFADEDBEADEDCAUL
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Date: 2010-03-18 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-18 10:58 pm (UTC)There's a number of interesting helpful entries on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
I think the UL isn't even needed if the hex number is long enough.
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Date: 2010-03-18 11:01 pm (UTC)