Re: 1000 generations

Dave Probert (probert@cs.ucsb.edu)
Thu, 21 Sep 1995 15:15:31 -0700

Hi Steve -

> Good point! The fact that the Biblical writers can say such
> mathematically imprecise things (does God's covenant love cut out at
> the 1,001st generation? :-)) indicates to me they had an entirely
> different attitude to numbers that we modern Westerners have.

I don't think that westerners are so different.

But if I've said that once, I've said it a million times.

--Dave