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PURPLE BOOK

Specialty Definition: PURPLE BOOK

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Purple Book n. 1. The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. 2. Syn. Wizard Book. Donald Lewine's "POSIX Programmer's Guide" (O'Reilly, 1991, ISBN 0-937175-73-0). See also {book titles. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PURPLE BOOK

Specialty definitions using "PURPLE BOOK": book titles. (references)

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Anagrams: PURPLE BOOK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-k-l-o-o-p-p-r-u"

-3 letters: blooper, prebook.

-4 letters: bolero, booker, bopper, looker, lookup, looper, lopper, propel, pueblo, pulper, purple, rebook, relook, rouble, upbore.

-5 letters: bloke, bloop, bluer, boule, broke, brook, burke, loper, loupe, obole, orlop, poker, poler, probe, prole, puler, rebop, roble, ruble, upper.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PURPLE BOOK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 55 52 50 4C 45      42 4F 4F 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010101 01010010 01010000 01001100 01000101 00100000 01000010 01001111 01001111 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#85 &#82 &#80 &#76 &#69 &#32 &#66 &#79 &#79 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0055 0052 0050 004C 0045      0042 004F 004F 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

505552504639236494945

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