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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Millennium bug Year 2000. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | With the millennium bug problem surmounted and the economic improvement expected this year, industry growth is expected to be even higher. (references) | |
Cash-cows for these companies in 1999 were the implementation of standard software; testing and updating of existing programs to avoid computer problems caused by the millennium bug; consulting services for implementation of Internet applications. (references) | ||
According to statistics, Kenyan imports of hardware and peripherals fell to US$14 million in 1999, representing a small decline from the US$ 15 million recorded in the previous year. Statistics are somewhat unreliable, and the consensus among industry is that the purchases of computer equipment to combat the millennium bug were higher, however, the Kenyan government did impose temporary sanctions on the importation of computers. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kenya | However, the banking sector remained relatively stable in 2000 despite the apprehension that gripped the banking industry at the turn of the century due to the anticipated millennium bug problems. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
millennium bug | 10 |
y2k millennium bug | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-i-l-l-m-m-n-n-u-u" | |
-3 letters: millennium. | |
-5 letters: biennium, illumine, illuming, immingle, libeling, linguine, mumbling, unmingle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 49 4C 4C 45 4E 4E 49 55 4D 42 55 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000101 01001110 01001110 01001001 01010101 01001101 00100000 01000010 01010101 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M I L L E N N I U M   B U G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0049 004C 004C 0045 004E 004E 0049 0055 004D 0042 0055 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)474346463948484355472365541 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Images: Slideshow 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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