John,
Much neater to represent 'pi' in a radix-26 system so that its digits
map neatly onto the alphabet on a one-to-one basis.
However, I wouldn't spend too much time on it; life presents more
pressing problems.
Regards,
Vernon
John W Burgeson wrote:
>
> Vernon wishes to find values (albeit not very exact) by taking a set of
> numbers assigned to ancient Hebrew letters, and performing a certain
> arbitrary mathematical transformation on these numbers.
>
> I thought of the problem the other way around.
>
> I take the value of pi and extend it to exactly n positions after the
> decimal point. I assume the English alphabet as divinely given (as
> Vernon assumes the denary system to be divinely given) and so assign the
> numbers A=01, B=02, ..., Z=26. I then observe that the last 26 numbers in
> pi, when I get to position n, spell out the words "vernonjenkins." Not
> only that, but subsequent to position n I find other names,
> "georgehammond," for instance. Yes, even the name "georgemurphy." But
> "vernonjenkins" is the key term, since it takes exactly 26 letters, and
> that seems also to be divinely inspired.
>
> Now the above is, I believe, true, and verifiable by anyone, at least in
> principle. The value of n is left as an exercise to the serious student
> of such things; it (the value of n) is probably "divine" also. Note that
> my little exercise is clearly "better" than that of Vernon's since I have
> no need of introducing an arbitrary mathemetical transformation.
>
> John Burgeson (Burgy)
>
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