nothing-up-my-sleeve number noun1 •A number which, by its construction, is above suspicion of having hidden properties; used in creating cryptographic functions such as hashes and ciphers.The key schedule, however, expanding the key using an essentially one-way method, is more complex, with the binary expansions of both e and the golden ratio of "nothing up my sleeve numbers". — 2014 formsnothing-up-my-sleeve numbers