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A whole new perspective on Math
Oct. 26th, 2009 09:03 pm
Just a little thing I came across while doing my homework – hexspeak.
And suddenly I have a relation to the whole converting from one base to another. Maybe it’s my sense of humor, but to use 0BADF00D to clear locked index.dat files shows that Microsoft’s programmer are still human.
I need silly stuff like this magic numbers to find a grip on mathematics. They make my inner child happy.
… and just because I have to practice the hardcoding of tables, here are some more examples
| Code | Description |
0xCAFED00D |
‘cafe dude’ is used by Sun JAVA as a magic number for their pack200 compression |
0xDEADBABE |
‘dead babe’ is used by IBM Jikes RVM as a sanity check of the stack of the primary thread |
0xCAFEBABE |
‘cafe babe’ is used in Java to identify Java bytecode class files |
my personal favorite: 0xDEADDEAD |
‘dead dead’ is the bug check (STOP) code displayed when invoking a Blue Screen of Death either by telling the kernel via the attached debugger, or by using a special keystroke combination |
And no … I will not waste a single thought on the fact that stuff like this puts a wide grin on my face.
Originally published at SMOKINGBUNNY. Please leave any comments there.
