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To: general_re
Lots of people abuse math. For example, here is a weird one I found on the web:

Proof of God's existence

Many people question why God would create the universe for us and then leave no proof of his existence. Well. I have found proof of God's existence in the number pi. If you calculate pi out to many decimal places, you will find the following pattern:

pi = 3.1415 …
851212152089199197154191651119147851859113931851205420852114922518195…

Yes, this may appear to be a random assortment of numbers, but if you examine these numbers carefully enough, God's word becomes clear. If we take each number to correspond to its placement in the alphabet, then the message becomes:

heababaeb0hiaiiaigaedaiafeaaaiadgheaheiaacicaheab0edb0hebaadibbeahaie

This makes no sense, so it can't be right. Plus, there are zeros that have no letter in the alphabet. So instead of doing that, we must take a zero to mean either 10 or 20. You'll notice that either a 1 or a 2 precede all zeroes.

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Also, we will take 12 to be "l", not "ab" and so on. Decrypting the message this way reveals God's word:

Hello this is God speaking here I am I created the universe

This is absolutely incredible. If you still doubt, then verify it for yourself. The formula for calculating pi is:

pi = 4 * (1 - 1/3 + 1/5 – 1/7 +…)

Examining the mathematical structure of nature has revealed God's unambiguous message. The only question now is what exactly does the message mean? It is clear that God exists, but since there is no way to use punctuation in the sentence, he was slightly impaired in his communication ability. For example, does the message mean:

Hello. This is God speaking. Here I am. I created the universe.

Or

Hello. This is God speaking here. I am. I created the universe.

Either way it is clear what God is trying to say.

13 posted on 03/05/2002 11:23:08 PM PST by Gladwin
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To: Gladwin
Yea, and if Jesus could work miracles why didnt he just write, in great big letters, "Jesus was here" on the face of the moon.
17 posted on 03/06/2002 1:46:38 AM PST by mindprism.com
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To: Gladwin
Lots of people abuse math. For example, here is a weird one I found on the web:

And since pi is infinite, you could find anything you want. I have a better one though on the true nature of Barney the dinosaur:

  1. Take the phrase CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR
  2. U turns to V for Roman times, CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR
  3. take down the Roman numerals, you have CVVLDIV
  4. I=1, V=5, L=50, C=100, D=500
  5. 1+5+5+5+50+100+500=666!
Barney is Satan!

I can also "prove" that 1=2.

18 posted on 03/06/2002 2:10:34 AM PST by Quila
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To: Gladwin
God is a very subtle fellow, burying his messages in pi like that. Of course, pi is infinite, so you ought to find any particular string of numbers you like if you look hard enough - I bet both the Old and New Testaments are buried in there somewhere! ;)

This silliness is why that "Bible Code" stuff that was popular a few years ago is more reflective of human creativity than anything else. I'm reminded of a Slashdot post I made a while back, about how to create passwords for computer systems. Some guy posted his purportedly "random" method for making up passwords, to enhance security. Which inspired this silliness from me - it's sort of the same thing, only in reverse:

Re:Random is the only way!
by general_re on Friday June 29, @11:13AM (#119171)
(User #8883 Info)

That is not nearly random enough. You need an algorithmic process that'll give you something really random.

Here's what I do. First, you take a phrase, famous or obscure. For this example, I'll use a little Shakespeare - "He hath a daily beauty in his life that maketh mine ugly."

Then, you take the second letter of each word, ignoring any single-letter words, thus producing "eaaeniihaig" in this case.

Then, you convert each letter to its decimal ASCII equivalent, giving us:

101 97 97 101 110 105 105 104 97 105 103

Then squash that all into a single number in that order, producing:

101979710111010510510497105103

Then, you take the 5'th root of that number, and drop any decimal places:

101979710111010510510497105103^(1/5) = 633436.01848182821643020050352705 --> 633436

Then, you take THAT number, and break it into pairs thusly:

63 34 36

Finally, you take the first pair and convert it back to its ASCII decimal equivalent, and that's your password. In this case ASCII 63 is "?", so your password is "?" (without the quotes, naturally).

And that, my friend, is pretty d*mn random.

;)

19 posted on 03/06/2002 4:22:46 AM PST by general_re
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To: Gladwin
If you still doubt, then verify it for yourself

How far down in the series is this string? Somewhere near the imaginary end?

63 posted on 03/06/2002 8:25:02 AM PST by RightWhale
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To: Gladwin
851212152089199197154191651119147851859113931851205420852114922518195

The guy is either passionate or out-to-lunch, wink wink

Results

The string 851212152089199197154191651119147851859113931851205420852114922518195 did not occur in the first 100000000 digits of pi after position 0.

It is not in the first 100,000,000 digits of pi. How about something shorter?

Results

The string 851212152089199197 did not occur in the first 100000000 digits of pi after position 0.

Nope. Again?

Results

The string 85121215 was found at position 34851875 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted.

Success!! Pi does say hello, twice.

The string 85121215 was found at position 61936834 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted.

Andy is in Pi 101 times! 100,000,000 digits

303 posted on 03/07/2002 9:50:43 PM PST by AndrewC
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