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WHAT'S A SPLINE?

Specialty Definition: WHAT'S A SPLINE?

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What's a spline? [XEROX PARC] This phrase expands to: "You have just used a term that I've heard for a year and a half, and I feel I should know, but don't. My curiosity has finally overcome my guilt." The PARC lexicon adds "Moral: don't hesitate to ask questions, even if they seem obvious.". Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: WHAT'S A SPLINE?

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-?-a-a-e-h-i-l-n-p-s-s-t-w"

-4 letters: phantasies.

-5 letters: aphanites, ashplants, asthenias, inswathes, palatines, panelists, pheasants, planishes, plashiest, slantwise, stapelias, thespians.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WHAT'S A SPLINE?


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

57 48 41 54 27 53      41      53 50 4C 49 4E 45 3F

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

        

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

01010111 01001000 01000001 01010100 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000001 00100000 01010011 01010000 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101 00111111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#72 &#65 &#84 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#65 &#32 &#83 &#80 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#63

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0048 0041 0054 0027 0053      0041      0053 0050 004C 0049 004E 0045 003F

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

57423554953235253504643483933

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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