![]() ![]() Consequently, such exercises are nothing more than parlour games with which to dazzle the gullible and uneducated.Ĭalilasseia wrote:Basically, this is merely yet another manifestation of a well-known mathematical theorem. The mathematicians who proved that theorem above, demonstrated the working thereof, by extracting purported "predictions" from a copy of Moby Dick, and others later performed the same exercise with the Hong Kong telephone directory. Indeed, I suspect that it's entirely possible to search the Torah, and extract therefrom the message "god does not exist", if one exercises sufficient ingenuity in so doing. They were inferred from context, which is why it's possible to manipulate ancient Hebrew texts with particular apologetic ease for "Bible Code" type exercises. In the case of ancient Hebrew, the situation is even more fluid, because when ancient Hebrew was written, the vowels were omitted. ![]() ![]() Furthermore, the original theorem was proven in the case where the 'alphabet' of symbols used to construct S was well-defined and fixed in advance, as is the case with the alphabet used for most Western European languages. This theorem applies both to randomly generated long strings and bodies of ordered text. Namely, given any sufficiently long string of symbols S, it is possible to extract from S any desired substring S'. Basically, this is merely yet another manifestation of a well-known mathematical theorem.
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