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SURE AS DEMOIVRE

Specialty Definition: SURE AS DEMOIVRE

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Sure as Demoivre Abraham Demoivre, author of The Doctrine of Chances, or Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events at Play, was proverbially accurate in his calculations. It was Pope who said, "Sure as Demoivre, without rule or line."
Sure as a gun, as fate, as death and taxes, etc. (See Similes.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: SURE AS DEMOIVRE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-i-m-o-r-r-s-s-u-v"

-4 letters: misaverred, overissued, remeasured, remeasures, reoviruses, rosemaries.

-5 letters: airdromes, armouries, deservers, devourers, diaereses, disarmers, isomerase, measurers, misereres, misorders, murderees, murderess, overdares, overdress, overdries, overissue, overrides, overseeds, overseers, oversides, rearmouse, rearoused, rearouses, reassumed, reassured, remeasure, reredoses, reremouse, rosariums, savourers, savourier, savouries, seadromes, variorums.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SURE AS DEMOIVRE


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

53 55 52 45      41 53      44 45 4D 4F 49 56 52 45

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

        

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

01010011 01010101 01010010 01000101 00100000 01000001 01010011 00100000 01000100 01000101 01001101 01001111 01001001 01010110 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#85 &#82 &#69 &#32 &#65 &#83 &#32 &#68 &#69 &#77 &#79 &#73 &#86 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0055 0052 0045      0041 0053      0044 0045 004D 004F 0049 0056 0052 0045

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

535552392355323839474943565239

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