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From: laman@ncr-sd.UUCP (Mike Laman)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: hex <--> English
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 14:19:53 EST
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In article <1100@ecsvax.UUCP> alford@ecsvax.UUCP writes:
>
>Here's a question I haven't seen before, but have thought about a bit.
>Problem:  Who can suggest the longest coherent English phrase (or better yet,
>sentence), that contains only the letters ABCDEF, and thus could be interpreted
>as a series of hexadecimal numbers?  I'd be interested in any suggestions.
>
>Ross Alford

Here's mine:

	"Deaf Ed defaced a faded facade," Ada acceded.

Or:

	Bad Ed fed a dead beef a decade -- a bad fad.

		Mike Laman
		UUCP: {ucbvax,philabs,sdcsla}!sdcsvax!ncr-sd!laman

P.S.  I think I had better stick with octal.
P.S.S.  I have seen 'DEADC0DE' used to predefine dead areas -- note the
	use of a zero as the letter 'O'.  If we allow the letter 'O' for
	the zero hex digit, we could even get more interesting ones.
	Notice that 'DEADC0DE' fits nicely in a 32 bit word...