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From: bruce@liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Zork 69105
In-Reply-To: fu285@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 8 Apr 1995 21:48:25 GMT
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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Llewellyn <fu285@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> writes:

> Does anyone know what significance this number has?

From the Jargon file (published as The New Hacker's Dictionary, edited
by Eric Raymond)


:random numbers:: n.  When one wishes to specify a large but
   random number of things, and the context is inappropriate for
   {N}, certain numbers are preferred by hacker tradition (that is,
   easily recognized as placeholders).  These include the following:

...

     69
          From the sexual act.  This one was favored in MIT's ITS
          culture.
     105
          69 hex = 105 decimal, and 69 decimal = 105 octal.
-- 
Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool

