True enough, and I thought of that. However, they make it clear that the typical spelling was not used, which was the clue:
...the normal spelling [for "circumference"] would yield a numerical value of 106. The addition of the h, with a value of 5, increases the numerical value to 111. This indicates an adjustment of the ratio 111/106...
So it's not like they force-fit it in place - it's more that a clue was left:
In the Hebrew Bible, the scribes did not alter any text which they felt had been copied incorrectly. Rather, they noted in the margin what they thought the written text should be. The written variation is called a kethiv; and the marginal annotation is called the qere.
To the ancient scribes, this was also regarded as a remez, a hint of something deeper. This appears to be the clue to treat the word as a mathematical formula.
It's not definitive proof - we'd have to go back and ask the original authors - but it's a lot less shaky than doing some kind of wacky algebra like your "stadia" example used.
The Hebrew alphabet is alphanumeric: each Hebrew letter also has a numerical value and can be used as a number.
There was an embedded code - a word that was written strangely:
The common word for circumference is qav. Here, however, the spelling of the word for circumference, qaveh, adds a heh (h). ...
This indicates an adjustment of the ratio 111/ 106, or 31.41509433962 cubits. Assuming that a cubit was 1.5 ft. this 15-foot-wide bowl would have had a circumference of 47.12388980385 feet.
This Hebrew "code" results in 47.12264150943 feet, or an error of less than 15 thousandths of an inch!
Just FYI, the Catholic Church no longer endorses the rhythm method (which attempts to predict fertility solely based on the number of days since menstruation). It was replaced, decades ago, with the Sympto-Thermal method, which relies not only on days since menstruation, but also on the observation of several signs (waking temperature, vaginal mucus, cervix state/position).
It is extremely reliable and accurate, and the additional objective observations eliminate the uncertainty of the rhythm method.
The phrase "the rhythm method" may also be incorrectly used to describe the practice of observational fertility awareness (FA) methods. This often comes as a source of chagrin to practitioners of FA, because FA methods are significantly more effective than Rhythm. Many FA teachers consider the Rhythm Method to have been obsolete for at least 20 years.[1]
And beyond that, they could adjust for weather conditions. The speed limit is designed to incorporate reaction time for mmild-to-moderate inclement weather, as well. Automated cars could adjust automatically.
However, this would also require more rigorous maintenence to be done on each vehicle... tires suddenly become much more important when you're taking a tight turn in the rain. Maintenence and inspection would have to be tied into the cost of the vehicle to prevent Billy Joe Bob's automated rustbucket from causing a pile-up at 200 MPH.
ah, tina lives in berlin her voice so seldom on my machine is here tonight and i'm on the market and when i'm on the market words move faster wire and clouds move thin between us like a skin like a salty skin for a seed of fat circles smiling smiling her voice so intentionally smiling in the clouds between us
these are my intentions...
pushin... push pushin...
the... ah
it's me i see you i've seen you before i know about you i been told about you you were waiting and the wind was waiting for me to call you were waiting in the air where it's thin
comin through the tiny holes your number comin through the tiny holes your vapor comin through the tiny holes in the edges of the night and the tips of your wings are comin through the tiny holes
pushin... push
ah
through the club a blonde is carryin somethin is carryin me i'm someone i used to be a grey plastic someone blue plastic girl your cream is pushin pushin
pushin... pushed away your body is-a pushin... pushed away come before the unbelieve
carryin some lipstick for the boyfriend blonde between the rolls of sheets is professionally poised the faces are watching her she's watchin the faces watchin her
We use Betacam SP tapes, which are, and have always been, marketed to the professional market.
Betamax, on the other hand, was the consumer version. Totally different beast. Smaller tape cartridge, narrower tape, and initially, a one-hour limit on tape time. "Beta" means Betamax to most people... but to me, I associate it with Betacam.
I suppose I'm showing my age here. I was still a kid when the VHS/Betamax war (skirmish?) was going on.
Of course, I'm involved in the production of an international TV broadcast... we are transitioning to a pure-digital studio, but for now, I handle a lot of tape.
It just cracks me up when people talk about Betacam in derisive terms, since a lot of what you've seen on TV for the last 20 years has been sourced from a Betacam tape.
It may not have taken off in the consumer market, but in the pro market, it rocked.
1) You're spot on about Once Upon a Time in Mexico. It lacked cohesion. It left me on the outside, looking in.
2) Ronin and Bullitt have absolutely AWESOME car chases. I stopped to watch a car chase scene from Ronin in an electronics store, and I was hooked. Few movies manage to convey that "white-knuckle" tent
3) However, Bad Boys 2 was, overall, merely a poor caricature of Bad Boys. It tried to intensify the action that Bad Boys had, but only succeeded in creating ridiculous scenes that never fit together. Everything felt forced and unnatural, especially the "comedy." (Martin Lawrence on Ecstacy, making out with a corpse? Please.) Bad Boys, by contrast, had style. It could be taken as a whole. It was over-the-top, but in a remarkably-crafted way. I should've never expected a sequel to come close. I will have to rent Bad Boys 2 to see the car chase sequence again, though... you've piqued my interest.
3a) While I'm on a roll, let me toss in Lethal Weapon 4. That movie was a shining example of "forced." Everything was awful. From Chris Rock's out-of-place rant about cellphones (obviously ripped from his act) to the clunky dialogue between Riggs, Murtaugh, and Getz (had to look that one up)... not to mention that I've never liked Rene Russo. As one IMDb reviewer put it, Lethal Weapon 4 was "a contrived cast reunion movie."
StrokeIt is a mouse-gesture utility that is free for individual or non-profit use. I use it all the time - once you get used to "right-click+drag-left" as "back" in your browser, you'll feel naked without it.
It's completely trainable - if you want to scrawl out your name to have it open Notepad, you can probably train it to pick up on that. Otherwise, it comes with preprogrammed gestures that you can assign to all sorts of different commands - you can send keystrokes, hotkeys, even low-level Windows messaging commands to an application.
I agree, in principle. However, the biggest problem with using BitTorrent to download something is that you end up sending it to people - people who may not have the legal right to download it. Copyright law doesn't prohibit downloading - it prohibits unauthorized redistribution and duplication, both of which BitTorrent accomplishes.
I have some back episodes of Good Eats I missed that I'd like to watch (I do get Food Network), and I would like to check out Lost, but I don't feel like running the legal risk.
The Windows calculator default, which has 32 significant digits:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795
Your question made me calculate it again, though, with 100 decimal places on e, pi, and sqrt(163): (I know this isn't really the right way to do significant digits, especially with exponents, but it looks like everything past the 16th decimal place on the result is relatively meaningless, so I think I'm safe...)
If I were at home, I would - but I can't seed from work. Anyway, it's not my server - it's from the earlier dupe. Besides, it was feeding me at 140+kB/sec over a T1, so I figured it should be fine for a little while. At least better than the original mirrors.
Slashdot Mirror
However, they make it clear that the typical spelling was not used, which was the clue:So it's not like they force-fit it in place - it's more that a clue was left:It's not definitive proof - we'd have to go back and ask the original authors - but it's a lot less shaky than doing some kind of wacky algebra like your "stadia" example used.
http://www.khouse.org/articles/1998/158/ There was an embedded code - a word that was written strangely: It gives an error of 0.00265%. Quite remarkable.
It was replaced, decades ago, with the Sympto-Thermal method, which relies not only on days since menstruation, but also on the observation of several signs (waking temperature, vaginal mucus, cervix state/position).
It is extremely reliable and accurate, and the additional objective observations eliminate the uncertainty of the rhythm method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_Method http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_awareness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Family_Plann
the apostrophe of which you think you're making fun is correctly used. It's for the contraction of star is.
Corrected.
An' if'n that ain't a mouthful...
p.s. grammar rox
Ghillie suit. Close.
For a more thorough understanding of the parent poster, I refer you to THE TIME CUBE.
Well, maybe not him exactly, but an allophone...
Here it is in clickable form:
http://www.CompreXX.com/
And beyond that, they could adjust for weather conditions. The speed limit is designed to incorporate reaction time for mmild-to-moderate inclement weather, as well. Automated cars could adjust automatically.
However, this would also require more rigorous maintenence to be done on each vehicle... tires suddenly become much more important when you're taking a tight turn in the rain.
Maintenence and inspection would have to be tied into the cost of the vehicle to prevent Billy Joe Bob's automated rustbucket from causing a pile-up at 200 MPH.
Whoops. I made a mistake.
We use Betacam SP tapes, which are, and have always been, marketed to the professional market.
Betamax, on the other hand, was the consumer version. Totally different beast. Smaller tape cartridge, narrower tape, and initially, a one-hour limit on tape time. "Beta" means Betamax to most people... but to me, I associate it with Betacam.
I suppose I'm showing my age here. I was still a kid when the VHS/Betamax war (skirmish?) was going on.
I use Betacam SP tapes every week.
Of course, I'm involved in the production of an international TV broadcast... we are transitioning to a pure-digital studio, but for now, I handle a lot of tape.
It just cracks me up when people talk about Betacam in derisive terms, since a lot of what you've seen on TV for the last 20 years has been sourced from a Betacam tape.
It may not have taken off in the consumer market, but in the pro market, it rocked.
I agree with exactly two thirds of what you said.
1) You're spot on about Once Upon a Time in Mexico. It lacked cohesion. It left me on the outside, looking in.
2) Ronin and Bullitt have absolutely AWESOME car chases. I stopped to watch a car chase scene from Ronin in an electronics store, and I was hooked. Few movies manage to convey that "white-knuckle" tent
3) However, Bad Boys 2 was, overall, merely a poor caricature of Bad Boys. It tried to intensify the action that Bad Boys had, but only succeeded in creating ridiculous scenes that never fit together. Everything felt forced and unnatural, especially the "comedy." (Martin Lawrence on Ecstacy, making out with a corpse? Please.)
Bad Boys, by contrast, had style. It could be taken as a whole. It was over-the-top, but in a remarkably-crafted way. I should've never expected a sequel to come close.
I will have to rent Bad Boys 2 to see the car chase sequence again, though... you've piqued my interest.
3a) While I'm on a roll, let me toss in Lethal Weapon 4. That movie was a shining example of "forced." Everything was awful. From Chris Rock's out-of-place rant about cellphones (obviously ripped from his act) to the clunky dialogue between Riggs, Murtaugh, and Getz (had to look that one up)... not to mention that I've never liked Rene Russo.
As one IMDb reviewer put it, Lethal Weapon 4 was "a contrived cast reunion movie."
How is this "creationist"? Evolution is a theory, not a fact, and as with all scientific theories, should be presented as such.
Is there a better way to teach scientific thinking to students than to emphasize "what you are learning is not final"?
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html
We've killed Neo! Now we're doomed for sure!
StrokeIt is a mouse-gesture utility that is free for individual or non-profit use.
I use it all the time - once you get used to "right-click+drag-left" as "back" in your browser, you'll feel naked without it.
It's completely trainable - if you want to scrawl out your name to have it open Notepad, you can probably train it to pick up on that.
Otherwise, it comes with preprogrammed gestures that you can assign to all sorts of different commands - you can send keystrokes, hotkeys, even low-level Windows messaging commands to an application.
It's good stuff.
good call - I was about to post that very thing, but it appears you took the downmod instead...
I agree, in principle.
However, the biggest problem with using BitTorrent to download something is that you end up sending it to people - people who may not have the legal right to download it.
Copyright law doesn't prohibit downloading - it prohibits unauthorized redistribution and duplication, both of which BitTorrent accomplishes.
I have some back episodes of Good Eats I missed that I'd like to watch (I do get Food Network), and I would like to check out Lost, but I don't feel like running the legal risk.
http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/deadmilkmen/stuart.h tml
(I know this isn't really the right way to do significant digits, especially with exponents, but it looks like everything past the 16th decimal place on the result is relatively meaningless, so I think I'm safe...)Long answer, but I wanted to make sure calc.exe wasn't misleading me.
Did it really work for you? I was just assuming it was slashdotted, so I was going to wait and try it later.
If I were at home, I would - but I can't seed from work.
Anyway, it's not my server - it's from the earlier dupe.
Besides, it was feeding me at 140+kB/sec over a T1, so I figured it should be fine for a little while. At least better than the original mirrors.
Here's a mirror of the .MOV file, from the previously posted article.