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BINARY FOUR

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Binary four n. [Usenet] The finger, in the sense of `digitus impudicus'. This comes from an analogy between binary and the hand, i.e. 1=00001=thumb, 2=00010=index finger, 3=00011=index and thumb, 4=00100. Considered silly. Prob. from humorous derivative of finger, sense 4. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: BINARY FOUR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-f-i-n-o-r-r-u-y"

-3 letters: urinary.

-4 letters: arbour, barony, barrio, baryon, binary, brainy, briary, briony, friary, orfray, ourari, rarify, rurban, unfair.

-5 letters: arbor, bairn, barny, baron, bayou, bourn, boyar, brain, briar, briny, bruin, bunya, buran, burin, burro, burry, fairy, firry, foray, forby, friar, furan, furor, furry, infra, irony, noria, nubia, rainy, rayon, robin, unary, unbar, unify, urari, urban.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-f-i-n-o-r-r-u-y"
 

+5 letters: neurofibrillary.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BINARY FOUR


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

42 49 4E 41 52 59      46 4F 55 52

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

    

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

01000010 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010010 01011001 00100000 01000110 01001111 01010101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#78 &#65 &#82 &#89 &#32 &#70 &#79 &#85 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 004E 0041 0052 0059      0046 004F 0055 0052

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

364348355259240495552

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2. Orthography
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