Nov. 30th, 2006

Hexspeak

Nov. 30th, 2006 02:10 pm
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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)

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