VIRTUAL BEER

  

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VIRTUAL BEER

Specialty Definition: VIRTUAL BEER

DomainDefinition

Computing

Virtual beer n. Praise or thanks. Used universally in the Linux community. Originally this term signified cash, after a famous incident in which some Britishers who wanted to buy Linus a beer sent him money to Finland to do so. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VIRTUAL BEER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

virtual beer

17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: VIRTUAL BEER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-i-l-r-r-t-u-v"

-2 letters: retrieval, veritable, vertebral.

-3 letters: blearier, eluviate, evitable, levirate, liberate, reburial, relative, retailer, ruralite, terrible, traveler, ureteral, vaultier, vertebra.

-4 letters: alerter, alterer, arbiter, atelier, bleater, blurter, bravure, brevier, bruiter, burlier, earlier, elative, learier, leavier, librate, rarebit, raveler, realter, rebater, rebuilt, relater, retable, retrial, revalue, reviler, riveter, rivulet, tearier, trailer, triable, uralite, vaulter, vealier, verbile.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VIRTUAL BEER


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

56 49 52 54 55 41 4C      42 45 45 52

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

    

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

01010110 01001001 01010010 01010100 01010101 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000010 01000101 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#73 &#82 &#84 &#85 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#66 &#69 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0049 0052 0054 0055 0041 004C      0042 0045 0045 0052

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

56435254553546236393952

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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