nonce

Example Sentences

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If the hash doesn’t start out as “aaaaa,” it would increase the nonce by one, and start again.

From The Verge • Sep. 9, 2021

When a mining node wants to create a block, it would take all the data in the block, plus a special number called a nonce, and run it through the hashing algorithm.

From The Verge • Sep. 9, 2021

A lapse into depression, for the nonce, was averted.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2010

I was nonplussed, for the nonce, but when we were within ten feet of the bottom I recovered my wits.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I still shall hear of this battle,” said he, pointing a finger at me, “but for the nonce, tune yourself.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson