RE: [asa] Empiricism, Faith and Science

And 999 is the same as 666 upside down, which is of course of interest as
well as the number of the beast. And the number 9 (or 6) in Wingdings 3
font, if written in all four 90-degree rotations, looks suspiciously like
the Nazi symbol. (included herein as a graphic, for those who can read it).
Patterns abound!

Jon Tandy

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Subject: Re: [asa] Empiricism, Faith and Science

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 Dawsonzhu@aol.com wrote:

> Vernon wrote:
>
> > It's not that I don't want to, Paul; it's just not possible! You
> > see, numerical geometry as a pictorial tool is confined to a
> > relatively small subset of the natural numbers - and 1899 is not
> > found among these.
>
> Maybe not numerical geometry, but how about prime numbers,
> or some other pattern. So little is understood about natural numbers,
> maybe 1899 has something else to offer.
>

If the text of Genesis 1:1 had come down to us without the object markers, I
think that Vernon would still have found interesting features. For example,
he might observe what happens if one permutes the digits of 1899.
1998=2x999, and 8991= 9x999, and 999 is a multiple of 37, which interests
him very much. Of course, these two should count as only one feature since
switching the first and fourth digits of any number makes a difference in
value of a multiple of 999.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395

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