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OCTAL FORTY

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Octal forty /ok'tl for'tee/ n. Hackish way of saying "I'm drawing a blank." Octal 40 is the {ASCII space character, 0100000; by an odd coincidence, hex 40 (01000000) is the {EBCDIC space character. See wall. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: OCTAL FORTY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-f-l-o-o-r-t-t-y"

-1 letter: olfactory.

-3 letters: factory, locator.

-4 letters: calory, clotty, cottar, crafty, factor, floaty, rattly, tartly, trotyl.

-5 letters: actor, afoot, aloft, aloof, carol, catty, claro, clary, cloot, coaly, color, cooly, coral, cotta, craft, croft, farcy, fatly, fatty, float, floor, flora, flota, focal, footy, foray, forty, lofty, loofa, lotto, lyart, lytta, octal, octyl, ottar, ratty, rooty, royal, taroc.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OCTAL FORTY


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

4F 43 54 41 4C      46 4F 52 54 59

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

    

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

01001111 01000011 01010100 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000110 01001111 01010010 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#67 &#84 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#70 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0043 0054 0041 004C      0046 004F 0052 0054 0059

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

493754354624049525459

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