Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 01:26:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com> To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD's Mascot Message-ID: <199704100626.BAA20409@main.gbdata.com> In-Reply-To: <199704041736.JAA21271@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Apr 4, 97 09:36:06 am"
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Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > > > B,66; I,73; L,76; L,76; G,71; A,65; T,84; E,69; S,83 and a 3 (His > > complete second name is Gates III) it all adds 666 (the number of the > > beast). Other famous terms: > > MS DOS 6.21 77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54 = 666 > > Windows 95 87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 = 666 Where are you getting your number system from? I've never seen a "standard" for english gematria. > > well i guess that confirms what i suspected all along. ;) > playing(?) with sums formed from letters is a very old > practice. in hebrew every letter is also a number so no > translation table is required. the sequence for the letters > runs 1, 2, 3, ... 9, 10, 20, ... 100, 200, 300, 400. no > 0. 400 is the last leter of the alphabet (alef bet, are > the first two letters of the alphabet[a]) numbers larger You are confusing Hebrew and Greek:) ^^^^^^^^^^^ > than 400 are fomed by repeating 400, etc...well i guess > that i have rambled enough. It is called gematria. I thought it started with Aleph at 1 and ended with Tzaddi(final) at 900. Yes all the numbers above 400 are final letters, so may not be used in all dialects (I only know one in a very limited way...). > > jmb > Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups - http://WWW.GBData.com for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/FAQ.latin1
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