From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 10 00:27:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA21370 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 00:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gbdata.com (USR2-1.detnet.com [207.113.12.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA21363 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 00:26:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA20409; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 01:26:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199704100626.BAA20409@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: BSD's Mascot To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 01:26:55 -0500 (CDT) Cc: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704041736.JAA21271@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Apr 4, 97 09:36:06 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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