RE: VMs: Re: word length counts - addendum

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

One other possibility for such a string - I've seen number strings very
similar to this as part of "astronomical" calculations in student handbooks
from the 15th/16th century.  I wouldn't know how to "back engineer" such a
string, but it may well have been derived from a specific calculation.

GC

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> John Grove wrote:
>
> > 135797531474 - prime number 13579 reversed onto itself to make a longer
> > prime?
> > 135797531 -- now what's that 474 doing there?
>
> I dunno, a mirror image of "747", a Nostradamus prediction, perhaps? :-)
> IMHO, it's there because the string needed to be 12 characters
> long, and the
> addition of a non-two-spaced number like 4 generates offset numbers of
> 1,2,3, and 4.
>
> In addition, textbook strings do not have recurring numbers or values, but
> by 1623 we see a keyword "Temples" that employs the "e" twice.
> Think of the
> mess you'd be in with something like "abracadabra"!  This generates
> distances of 3,2,2,3,1 respectively, counting only the a's.  Make this a
> moving target, say changing the overall alignment every word, and
> it's quite
> a mess for the statistician.
>
> GC
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