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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BVCP | English | Banyan VINES Control Protocol | Computer - (RFC 1763, Banyan, VINES, PPP) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 56 43 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ...- -.-. .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010110 01000011 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B V C P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0056 0043 0050 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36563750 |
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