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Re: Bible codes Program

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From: Guy Swarbrick
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 00:00
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I want a copy!

Rotes Sapiens wrote in message <34333667...@192.189.54.145>...
>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!
>
>
>Do female Computer Science grads use tampoffs?
>
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From: "Guy Swarbrick" <guy_sw...@email.but.not.spam.msn.com>
Subject: Re: Bible codes Program
Date: 1997/10/06
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