Programmers love “magic” numbers, numbers having second, often verbal, meaning. The hexadecimal digits suit perfectly here.

For instance, to form a stub number for a 16- or 32-bit value, people usually use words from the following set:

ABBE
ACED
BABE
BADE
BEAD
BEEF
BODE
CADE
CAFE
CEDE
COCA
CODA
CODE
DACE
DADO
DEAD
DEAF
DECO
DEED
DODO
FACE
FADE
FEED
FOOD
OBOE

For example:

DEADFACE
ACEDFEED  

If we don’t care about the symmetrical split, the vocabulary is a bit wider:

ABBE
ABE
ABODE
ACCEDE
ACCEDED
ACE
ACED
ADD
ADDED
ADO
ADOBE
BAA
BABE
BAD
BADE
BAOBAB
BE
BEAD
BEADED
BED
BEDDED
BEE
BEEF
BOA
BOB
BOBBED
BODE
BODED
BOO
BOOBOO
BOOED
CAB
CACAO
CAD
CADE
CAFE
CEDE
CEDED
COB
COCA
COCOA
COD
CODA
CODE
CODED
COFFEE
COO
COOED
DAB
DABBED
DACE
DAD
DADO
DEAD
DEAF
DEB
DECADE
DECAF
DECO
DECODE
DECODED
DEE
DEED
DEFACE
DEFACED
DO
DOC
DODO
DOE
DOFFED
EBB
EBBED
EFFACE
EFFACED
FAB
FACADE
FACE
FACED
FAD
FADE
FADED
FED
FEE
FEED
FOB
FOBBED
FOE
FOOD
OAF
OBOE
ODD
ODE
OF
OFF

For example:

BADCOCOA
BADCODED
FADEDDOC
CODEDBOB

On 64-bit systems we can create almost complete sentences.

EBBEDDEADBAOBAB

Does anybody know what to say to the next, 128-bit generation?