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[Anonymous]

My scholarly opinion is that The Number of the Beast is one of Maiden's best albums. "Run to the Hills" is a classic!

I agree 100% Brother :twisted: :darklord:

 

[Al in Canada]

Where is an expert in ancient Aramaic (or was John writing in Greek?) higher mathematical notation when you need one?

Easy to see how one would confuse 666 with 6th the sixth to the sixth. Don't know how sophisticated their math was, but John was writing in a visionary state wasn't he?

Dang I need to know how to show how this in print.

6

6


6
I can't force the spacing to show how it is written mathematically.

 

[Al in Canada]

I like The Number of the Beast, I think Heinlein managed to wrap all those store lines together rather well given the fact that none of them were originally related to each other. And I know Lazerus Long would not care for our "mother knows best" smoking laws.

TANSTAAFL

Al

{There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch} The first rule of economics according to L. Long (AKA: Woodrow Wilson Smith, Ted Brunson, et al.)

 

[regor]

It was also a very long time ago. Whatever it means in math but it is still (666) the mark of the beast. Read about it in Revelations, the last book in the bible.

 

[Doc Manhattan]

John wrote in Greek, and while there's debate about which number he meant, it's almost impossible he was referring to powers, since numbers in Greek the were either written out longhand or expressed in Greek numerical form, where the symbols for "six hundred," "sixty," and "six" were three entirely different figures. (The same would have been true for translations into Aramaic or Latin.)

It's like Roman numerals: 666 would be DCLXVI, whereas 6^(6^6) [1.03144248 × 10^28] would fill up this page. Even in decimal notation, 10,314,424,800,000,000,000,000,000,000 would be a hell of a number for "him who has understanding" to count!

 

[Al in Canada]

Doc Manhattan
I guess the question is whether the "number" is supposed to be a thought out understanding of St. John or a vision. If a vision how would he express seeing the "vision" of six to the sixth to the sixth?
I don't think we believe that the "four horsemen" are to literally be four individuals on horses, but symbols of the four causes of the horror.

Guess we will have to answer this another day or perhaps another aeon.

Al in Canada

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )