Hexadecimal: Difference between revisions

== Hex words ==

It is common when working at the assembler level, and when designing digital hardware to arrange for self-checking tests to denote pass or failure by writing distinctive values to a memory location, or for un-initialised memory to be distinctive values. Many engineers use values whose value when expressed in a hex dump stands out as valid english words such as the values DEAD and BEEF.

A scan of the word list used in [[Anagrams]] leads to this list of four digit hexadecimal values that are also words:

ABBE ABED BABE BADE BEAD BEEF CAFE CEDE DADA DADE DEAD DEAF DEED FACE FADE FEED