It was new news to me ...
I'd heard of assigning numbers to letters before and summing them to get
the "value" of a word ... Number of the Beast & all that.
I'd just never heard it applied to why 42 is the answer to "life, the
universe & everything" before. Didn't realize you had to translate into
Hebrew first either.
And yes, I understand that Adams was a British writer and MATHS doesn't
add up to 42.
I think it's clever that MATH does (in American English).
Plus, I don't think either MATH or MATHS adds up to 42 if you have to
translate them into Hebrew before summing them. Nor French, German,
Russian, Latin, Greek or Chinese.
From: Boris Liberman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria
Old news...
:-)
On 3/23/2013 5:14 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Darren Addy
I'm Darren. I'm interested in everything in the universe, on a
rotating basis. My motto is "Question Reality" and my emergency
back-up motto is "Reality is for people who lack imagination". My goal
in life is to finish something I have started.
A friend recently pointed out something that I'd never seen before
regarding the meaning of Life, The Universe & Everything. People always
want to know why 42?
He said the answer is MATH.
M = 13 + A = 1 + T = 20 + H = 8. Sum them all together and you get 42.
I thought that was rather clever.
PS: That Number of the Beast thingy? It apparently got screwed up in
translation somewhere along the way and depending on whose argument you
accept the "real" number should be either 616 or 661.
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