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JUGGLING EGGS

Specialty Definition: JUGGLING EGGS

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Computing

Juggling eggs vi. Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic 1975 first-contact SF novel "The Mote in God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." See also hack mode and on the gripping hand. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: JUGGLING EGGS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-g-g-g-g-i-j-l-n-s-u"

-3 letters: jugglings.

-4 letters: glugging, guggling, juggling, leggings, slugging.

-5 letters: giggles, glueing, guggles, jiggles, jingles, jugging, juggles, jungles, legging, leggins, lugeing, luggies, lugging, niggles, sniggle, snuggle.

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

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Alternative Orthography: JUGGLING EGGS


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

4A 55 47 47 4C 49 4E 47      45 47 47 53

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

    

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

01001010 01010101 01000111 01000111 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000101 01000111 01000111 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#85 &#71 &#71 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#69 &#71 &#71 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 0055 0047 0047 004C 0049 004E 0047      0045 0047 0047 0053

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

4455414146434841239414153

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