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Old 07-20-03, 06:44 PM
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Originally posted by khuon
Khuon -- What is the significance of your "deadbeef" signature? That happens to be the hexadecimal value we use to flag a particular type of error (read from an empty stack) in the communications system we are building. It's fun to see how many words one can spell using only the letters A through F, plus perhaps o and i, since the base-16 number system uses the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, c, d, e, f.
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