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illegal number
noun
A number that represents information which is illegal to possess, utter or propagate. Any information that can be represented in binary format is, ipso facto, representable as a number, and therefore if the information itself is illegal in some way, the pure number itself may be called illegal.
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Since it is a 128-bit numerical value, it was dubbed an illegal number.
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As most migrants are illegal, numbers are hard to come by.
A19 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Illegal Numbers Game Persists in New York The illegal numbers game continues to flourish in New York City despite law enforcement's best efforts and the existence of a legal version, created by New York State 25 years ago.
Casinos, basketball betting, bingo and jueteng — an illegal numbers game — are popular with both low- and high-income residents.
A few people from all over Africa have also been given political asylum.Since most immigrants are illegal, numbers are hard to nail down.
"If you know how to play the lottery, then you know how to play the illegal numbers," says Howard Abadinsky, a professor of criminal justice at St Xavier University in Chicago.
Dating to the 1950s, Mr. Marquez, who had the nickname Spanish Raymond, was at the top of the illegal numbers business.
Mr. Estrada's troubles began early last month, when a provincial governor asserted that the president had asked him to coordinate payoffs from an illegal numbers game.
Nor is this the first time the Workers Partyy has been implicated in a scheme to benefit the "jogo do bicho," the popular but illegal numbers game played all over this nation of 175 million.
In the current scandal, Mr. Estrada has been accused by a provincial governor who is also a gambling kingpin of receiving more than $11 million in payoffs, most of it from an illegal numbers game called jueteng.
A man who was notorious among the city's law enforcement officials for being a leader in the illegal numbers business has lost a lawsuit against the Department of Correction that blamed the Rikers Island smoking policy for his bladder cancer.
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