Hexspeak

[compilerbitch]

What's the longest word you can get purely by misusing hexadecimal?

My record is colibacillosis (c071bac1770515), 14 letters.

I'm using abcdef verbatim, with o=0, i=1, s=5, l=7. If you allow g=9, you can do one better (15 letters), with biosociological/ecclesiological/sociobiological and you can also get the 14 letter word fossilological, but that's a bit harder to read.

Can anyone beat that?

(guess who needed a 64-bit magic cookie today and didn't want to live with deadbeef01234567)

Comments

[4zumanga.livejournal.com]

Are you doing that with a dictionary? :)

[4zumanga.livejournal.com]

Let me extend that. Are you doing that with a computer dictionary and a program? :)

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Just grep and the default Linux word list.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

grep -iE "^[abcdefgoisl]{15}$" /usr/share/dict/words

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Need 64 bits? 0xDeadBeefDeafBabe is what I use.

[kaet.livejournal.com]

I've been known to use

70AD0F07DCABBA9E

but it's not just one word, :).

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Wow, if you allow t=7 you get

0x5111c0f1a9e11a7e (silicoflagellate)

There's even a couple of 17 letter words (silicoflagellatae/silicoflagellidae)!

[mair_in_grenderich]

hm, I was reading 7=L in the above :)

[caladri.livejournal.com]

I can't even enumerate the number of lovers I've had whose birthdates have wound up 32-bit magic numbers (both in hex outright and in decimal), or how thankful I am to have a four-byte first name :) I'm even less creative with 64 bits to play with. 8 letters (or 7 and a NUL) is a lot to work with! My protocols are damn easy to recognize on the wire :)

I'm tempted to use a format string as the 64-bit magic number and have the format string correspond to the remaining fields. That'd be nifty. Fuck you, TLV, I've got you beat!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Words, no, but there's always:
feedbeefc0edbabe

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

My preferred digital hexes are todefood, codefood, and coffee. there's feedbac, too :)

0xa261d15e56ab71548e26a31a2158

[ichae.livejournal.com]

I can spell antidisestablishmentarianism, if

i = 1
h = 4
l = 7
m = 8
n = 2
r =3
s = 5
t = 6

[desrt.livejournal.com]

7 is t. clearly.