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LINE 666

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Line 666 [from Christian eschatological myth] n. The notional line of source at which a program fails for obscure reasons, implying either that _somebody_ is out to get it (when you are the programmer), or that it richly deserves to be so gotten (when you are not). "It works when I trace through it, but seems to crash on line 666 when I run it." "What happens is that whenever a large batch comes through, mmdf dies on the Line of the Beast. Probably some twit hardcoded a buffer size.". Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: LINE 666

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "6-6-6-e-i-l-n"

-3 letters: lien, line.

-4 letters: lei, lie, lin, nil.

-5 letters: el, en, in, li, ne.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LINE 666


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

4C 49 4E 45      36 36 36

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

    

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

01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 00110110 00110110 00110110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#32 &#54 &#54 &#54

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0049 004E 0045      0036 0036 0036

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

464348392242424

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