{"id":3664,"date":"2016-06-03T23:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T23:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2016-06-05T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T11:23:18","slug":"the-hex-stories-hex-wordsmiths-playing-with-the-hex-words-in-the-hex-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/03\/the-hex-stories-hex-wordsmiths-playing-with-the-hex-words-in-the-hex-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The hex stories &#8211; hex wordsmiths playing with the hex words in the hex world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering what is the longest meaningful phrase made out of words containing only letters A..F &#8211; the only letters that are allowed in a hexadecimal system. After downloading some word lists I came up with the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>facaded facade &#8211;\u00a0 a double facade<\/li>\n<li>defaced deface &#8211; when a hacked entity that was already hacked is hacked again before recovery (i.e. double defaced)<\/li>\n<li>beefed beef &#8211; the beef that is very juicy, or with a lot of marble, or it&#8217;s stinky<\/li>\n<li>be deaf be deaf, be dead, be dead &#8211; probably part of some lyrics<\/li>\n<li>decaffaced &#8211; to be overdecaffeinated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the short story about the little deaf bee that discovered that her dad is a hated fed abusing decaffeinated coffee (probably both attended the Defcon):<\/p>\n<pre>a deaf baffed babe bee faced decaffaced dad: a fed! \r\nbe dead, facaded face! bad dad!<\/pre>\n<p>After playing with it and wondering what the heck am I doing I decided to google around, and.. turns out <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/hexpoetry\/\">I was not the first one to think of it<\/a>. There are actually more similar <a href=\"http:\/\/dsss.be\/hexwords\/\">efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering what is the longest meaningful phrase made out of words containing only letters A..F &#8211; the only letters that are allowed in a hexadecimal system. After downloading some word lists I came up with the following: facaded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/03\/the-hex-stories-hex-wordsmiths-playing-with-the-hex-words-in-the-hex-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}