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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 |
CFMJ | French | Commission fédérale des maisons de jeu | Public Administration, Law |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 46 4D 4A |
| 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)01000011 01000110 01001101 01001010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C F M J |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0046 004D 004A |
| 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)37404744 |
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