If you look at http://groups.google.com/groups?q=steve+gray+group:alt.bible.errancy&hl=en&l , a Google site whose contents are impossible for me to fake, you will see that I actually predicted that a disaster would happen on 9/11/01, by combining certain numbers from the Bible. However, before I can claim to be the New Nostradamus, I must confess that it was a joke. I was making the point to some dingbat Christian that if enough people play with enough numbers, someone is bound to create an amazing accident. Steve Gray ----- Original Message ----- From: <mcintosh@servidor.unam.mx> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Tenuous Associations
Quoting David Wilson <davidwwilson@comcast.net>:
[...] I notice that his birth year, 1732 is reminiscent of sqrt(3) = 1.732+, and from that propose some sort of mystic significance. So let us drag down this mystic association. [...] the unknown and probably incorrect time of the birth of Jesus Christ [...]
Come on, now! 3 is the number of members constituting a trinity, ... What more association do you want?
- hvm
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