"iain.strachan2" wrote:
>
> Hi, Peter,
>
> It is possible that the reason for your discrepancy was the iota subscript
> on the "eta" at the end of the word ARCHEI (beginning)
>
> The second word "archei" in the greek appears to end with an eta, but in
> fact the eta has an iota subscript, which, after careful checking against
> various Greek grammar websites, is definitely to be counted as part of the
> word. The value of iota is 10, and hence it makes no difference to the
> letter product (since powers of 10 are discounted in the formula). However,
> it makes a discrepancy of 719/709 in the word product (i.e. the gematriac
> sum of the word with and without the iota counted, which probably accounts
> for your discrepancy. As far as I can remember, the iota subscript is
> termed an "improper dipthong", and is definitely part of the word.
>
> It would appear that the letter values you are using are correct.
Hi, Iain,
you are right. Adding the iota produces a relative deviation (delta e)/e
of 10^-5.
Peter
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