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Re: Bible codes Program

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From: r... Rotes Sapiens
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 00:00
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On Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:16:43 -0700, John Ahlstrom <jahl...@cisco.com>
wrote:

>Ben Walsh wrote:
>I have produced a program which takes as input a string of
>English characters (punctuation is ignored in this version) and
>outputs 
>	a Bible Code 
>	a reference (e.g. Genesis 1:1)
>	and a contiguous section text of the King James Version 
>		of the Bible starting in the reference. 

>The Bible Code is a set of character-to-character translations which
>when applied to the King James Version of the bible will translate
>the contiguous section (not including punctuation) of the Bible 
>into the input string.

>Limitations:
>	So far the program has failed with some inputs
>	greater than 30 characters.  That is it can find
>	"We the people of the United States" but not
>	"Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F Kennedy"

I suspect the more names it has (modern or not) the more difficulty it
will have in finding a code.


>If you are interested in obtaining the program, email me.
>If you are interested in helping me adapt the program to
>Hebrew, email me.
>If you are interested in applying the algorithms 
>to a different version of the Bible or different
>works (Shakespeare anyone?), email me and I will
>see what I can do.

Your program sounds like an excellent idea.  It may help to stop the
spreading of superstitious religous nonsense like bible codes.


>   Any neural system sufficiently complex to generate the axioms 
>   of arithmetic is too complex to be understood by itself.
>                                       Kaekel's Conjecture

But a NN that is too simple to generate the axioms of arithmetic can't
understand itself either!


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From: r...@redplanet.mars.com.cy (Rotes Sapiens)
Subject: Re: Bible codes Program
Date: 1997/10/05
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