> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Charlie Bell > Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 6:22 PM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Good Math, Bad Math entry > > > oh, there are plenty of those. The recent "Bible Code" revival has > lead to quite a few smart wags using the same "method" to show all > sorts of... bollocks.
True, but he remains a favorite because I read his "proof" ages ago, when I was 15 or 16 (>35 years ago). > Nothing to do with the veracity of the source material - the same > algorithms work equally well on any body of english text that is > sufficiently long... That's true. One thing that's interesting is that the Bible does have numerical codes that mean something. For example, the Numbers of the Beast found in ancient copies of Revelations (666 is the most common, but there are some very old texts that have the Number of the Beast as 616) refers to Nero in both variations of the number (666 and 616). Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
