Interesting Hex Constants - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Sal Ammoniac
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 04:41:56 pm
content: Some lighter fare for Friday..Here are some interesting Hex constants--anyone have any more?0xDEADBEEF0xCAFEBABE

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 04:49:50 pm
content: 0x000FF1CE0x8BADF00D0xBADA550xD15EA5E0xFACEFEEDI did NOT cheat. If I had, they would be on the web, somewherehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak

author: kayvee
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 04:50:50 pm
content: The second one is definitely more appealing for a Friday0xDEADFEED goes more with the first.

author: JimRemington
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 05:00:52 pm
content: From the above cited Wikipedia Hexspeak web site:Quote

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 05:05:24 pm
content: Quote from: JimRemington on April 15, 2016, 05:00:52 pmQuoteThat shows that Apple spent the time and trouble to make the hex codes, more useful/funny/informative/human-readable. So impressive.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 05:18:41 pm
content: 0xFEEDBAC 0x4 0xA 0xEE 0x15 0xEA51 (Feedback for an Electronics Engineer, is easy).

author: ade
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 05:26:22 pm
content: 0x55505C18 -- 555 oscillate. Ok I just made that up.QuoteMeanwhile, Microsoft had to apologize for using 0xB16B00B5 ("Big Boobs") to tag Linux virtualization guests on Hyper-V:http://www.networkworld.com/article/2222804/software/microsoft-code-contains-the-phrase--big-boobs------yes--really.html

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 05:45:47 pm
content: 0x1C50x741 0xFEEDBAC0x7490 0xDECADE0x74181 0xADD

author: neil555
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 05:48:43 pm
content: 0xCAB00D1E (caboodle)

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 06:08:19 pm
content: 0xEEB106 0xCAB00D1E5 (EEVBLOG CABOODLES)

author: Kilrah
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 07:22:08 pm
content: "café" being "coffee" in French, and us using English enough to make the 2nd part funny.Not a cheat, taken by me many years ago, on a program that I (obviously poorly) coded but of course not with such an intent.

author: AlxDroidDev
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 07:24:40 pm
content: 0xB00B5

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 08:02:01 pm
content: 0x1coffee0xabba

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 08:08:00 pm
content: Quote from: free_electron on April 15, 2016, 08:02:01 pm0xABBA ...0x1D01D01D01D01D0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Do,_I_Do,_I_Do,_I_Do,_I_Do0x505https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOS_(ABBA_song)

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 08:53:44 pm
content: 0xCAFFE 0xCOFFEE0x6A1A0 0xCOFFEE0x1CED 0xCOFFEE0xD06610 0xCOFFEE0xAFF06A10 0xCOFFEE0xCAFE 0xCOFFEE0xDEADE1E 0xCOFFEE

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 08:56:09 pm
content: 0x5f3759dfSee:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 09:41:33 pm
content: Quote from: daqq on April 15, 2016, 08:56:09 pm0x5F3759FD works better for mehttps://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/calculating-square-roots/msg703336/#msg703336And some history about where that number came from an investigation done in this forum:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/calculating-square-roots/msg704023/#msg704023

author: KE5FX
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 11:19:47 pm
content: I've never been able to come up with a longer English word than 0xDEFACED. Anyone got an 8-character word?

author: ade
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 11:39:10 pm
content: 11 letter word: a110ca7ab1efrom:http://nedbatchelder.com/text/hexwords.html

author: KE5FX
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 11:42:12 pm
content: Quote from: ade on April 15, 2016, 11:39:10 pmYeah, no, that doesn't count, one word in English, no '1337sp33k.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2016, 11:48:20 pm
content: Quote from: KE5FX on April 15, 2016, 11:19:47 pm0xFABACEAEhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabaceae

author: KE5FX
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2016, 12:15:28 am
content: Quote from: MK14 on April 15, 2016, 11:48:20 pmOh, that's a good one. Latin, but I'll allow it.

author: kc8apf
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2016, 01:06:58 am
content: Facebook puts face:booc in their IPv6 addressesSent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2016, 02:07:29 am
content: FACE0FF(for hockey or John Travolta/Nick Cage fans)I can't for the life of me remember the one we used to use all the time for Novell Netware network names.