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Hex Words

Find the English hex() words. You know, the strings of hex digits that appear to be English words.

For example...

• The word 'bee' in hex is 3054 in decimal.
• The word 'face' in hex is 64206 in decimal.
• The word 'decade' in hex is 14600926 in decimal.

Forget about the '0x' prefix. That's computer stuff! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2670639/why-are-hexadecimal-prefixed-as-0x

So, what is the largest hex word in English? (hint: You can eat some of them.)

Solutions

• Barry Flinn's solution is hexwords.py
• Andrew Ross's solution is hexwords.py

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