"D. F. Siemens, Jr." wrote:
>
> Peter,
> I have a question about the values used for the Greek letters in your
> computation. 6 was apparently once the archaic digamma, which looked like
> F, but final sigma took its place. 90 was qoph and 900 a letter that
> looked like an inverted psi. The latter two have no place in the New
> Testament text, but using 6 or 200 makes a large difference. All six
> sigmas in John 1:1 are final.
> Dave
Hi Dave,
when I replaced all 5 (not 6) terminal sigmas by the archaic digamma
with the value 6 instead of 200, the result was way off: 33... instead
of 2718... But Iain Strachan suggested instead to add the final
diphthong iota to the end of ARCHE. This did it, and the relative
deviation (delta e)/e became 10^-5 as indicated by Iain.
Peter
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