Talk:Hexspeak

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Hexspeak is mostly either 16 or 32 bits when it is used for magic numbers. Note the use of some digits can sometimes be used as letters. "1" can mean "L" or "I", "0" could mean "o", "5" could mean "S", "7" sometimes means "T" and so on.

Examples: dead, beef, bad, feed, f00d, c0de, babe, c001, d00d, 1d107, ea7, caca0, cafe, 7ea, 15, 9e7, b19, e.tc..

I've yet to see a 'real' example of someone using 6 or 9 as G, 5 as S, and 7 as t, or 1 as i. It's certainly doable, except it just wasn't done at the time (7 only vaguely looks like T, at best). I'd classify 5 and 7 as leet. I've also heard the opinion that 1 as i isn't real leet either.

  • I've used them as leet, and they've been used like that on the GameFAQs <a href="http://boards.gamefaqs.com/">message boards</a> quite frequently. So yes, they would qualify more as leet than hexspeak.

I also object to separating 0xDEADBEEF (and others) and removing decaf. Most hexspeak is 32 bits (hence 0xbaadfeed). And "note the use" makes little sense when the examples come after.

OTOH, there is #C0FFEE (a light greeny cyan), but I've never seen html colors used in this way either (other than by me), so I didn't include it. Elektron 12:23, 2004 May 5 (UTC)

  • And nobody would want coffee that color anyway. Someone might have puked in it. --SheeEttin 01:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
  • "For example: 1517AB19B17Ch ('Is it a big bitchz0rz!!'). Note, however, that it is impossible to just spell 'bitch' as a single word, as numbers in this notation that begin with a letter have to start with a zero to distinguish them from variable names. 'Bitch' would then be '0B17Ch'." Why is this in the article? It can be removed. So then it would just read "In the Intel assembly language, hexadecimal numbers are denoted by a 'h' suffix." I don't think an example of what a hex number that ends in 'h' looks like is even necessary, and certainly not this example which looks like an attempt to sneak in some typical juvenile 1337 into an unrelated article, i.e. vandalism. - Gripdamage

[edit] Uppercase

Note: for inter-article consistency, hex digits should be uppercase (see WP:MOSNUM). Quarl (talk) 2006-12-16 10:55Z

[edit] Monospace and Combinations and Deliberately Placement of 0xdeadbeef

Off-topic: I once had a BSOD in Windows 2000 where it reported some kind of memory violation at 0xdeadbeef. I thought it was a coincidence, but now that I see this article, it may just be a weird developer. On-topic: Should hex be written in <tt>-tags? And why do we list examples when it's possible to make so many if you use the segments listed further up on the talkpage?--Ysangkok 21:29, 4 February 2007 (UTC)