Hex Triplet Words
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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...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#In_...
[2] 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
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?
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.
See also despade, declub, and dediamond (though with the regard to the latter I prefer deadamantize).
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.