Re: [asa] The Challenge (was Advice for conversing with YECs)

On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, Vernon Jenkins wrote:

> Gentlemen,
>
> It is clear to me that you all miss the point of my recent posting. In essence, here is the problem I pose:
>
> Each of the opening 8 Hebrew words of the Bible has the numerical form Gi = 105pi + 99qi + ri , where pi qi and ri are small integers and the parameters, 105 and 99, are significant elements of numerical geometry.
>

Vernon,

Maybe I miss your point. It is not clear what you mean by small integer,
but in another post you gave an example in which one of the coefficients
was 12. If I allow small integer to mean any from -12 to +12 and take p
and q both in this range, my hasty calculations show that there are 312
positive multiples of three that are values of 105p+99q. The largest of
these is 2448, and so these 312 values come from a set of 816 possible
multiples of three, i.e. you are getting 13/34 of the possible multiples
of three. Then if you look at values of 105p+99q+r with r fairly small,
imagine how many more numbers you can get.

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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Received on Sun Nov 9 23:04:27 2008