Okay, Okay -- I admit it. You didn't change that program that worked just a
little while ago; I inserted some random characters into the executable.
Please forgive me. You can recover the file by typing in the code over again,
since I also removed the source.
magic number n.
[Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the
operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line
(hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a
commented #define....