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Clivedurdle · 02-23-2005, 02:07 PM

Shes asked for new threads for digressions.

Gematria seems to show that 888 is derivable from Jesus.

But isn't this actually evidence that Jesus is a myth, ie Jesus was made up by people playing with 888.

Maybe my joke elsewhere about the word of god and the number of god is nearer reality than I thought - is it correct that the Greek alphabet was also used for counting?

Toto · 02-23-2005, 02:50 PM

Ancient Greek counting scroll down to:

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We now look at a second ancient Greek number system, the alphabetical numerals ot as it is sometimes called, the 'learned' system. . . .

There are 24 letters in the classical Greek alphabet and these were used together with 3 older letters which have fallen out of use. These 27 letters are

[graphic omitted]

Of these we have given both the upper case and lower case versions of the 24 classical letters. The letters digamma, koppa, and san are the obsolete ones. Although we have not given their symbols in the above table their symbols appear in the numeral tables below. The first nine of these letters were taken as the symbols for 1, 2, ... , 9.

Notice that 6 is represented by the symbol for the obsolete letter digamma.

The next nine letters were taken as the symbols for 10, 20, ... , 90.

Notice that 90 is represented by the symbol for the obsolete letter koppa.

The remaining nine letters were taken as the symbols for 100, 200, ... , 900.

Notice that 900 is represented by the symbol for the obsolete letter san.

Sometimes when these letters are written to represent numbers, a bar was put over the symbol to distinguish it from the corresponding letter.

from G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

02-23-2005, 02:07 PM	#1
Clivedurdle Contributor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: London UK Posts: 16,024	888 Shes asked for new threads for digressions. Gematria seems to show that 888 is derivable from Jesus. But isn't this actually evidence that Jesus is a myth, ie Jesus was made up by people playing with 888. Maybe my joke elsewhere about the word of god and the number of god is nearer reality than I thought - is it correct that the Greek alphabet was also used for counting?

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