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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
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Subject: Re: HAL(rot(1)) = IBM
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Date: Fri, 21-Oct-83 00:10:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 21 00:10:08 1983
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Yes indeedy. And amazingly enough, if you rotate the first letter of IBM
back 5 letters, the second forward 1 letter, and the third back 10 letters,
you get DEC.

Why 5-1-10, I hear you cry? Well, ya see, the 10 is binary for 2, so it
spells 512, which is the largest three-digit power of 2...

You can play this game with any combination of letters and numbers
if you try hard enough. It's the modern equivalent of gematria.
(Speaking of which, 770 is Bais Mashiach, but that's off-topic...)

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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