Re: hebrew, the movie Pi
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 15, 1999, 23:22 |
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:55:54 -0400 nicole perrin <nicole.perrin@...>
writes:
>Yesterday I rented the movie Pi, it's an independent film about a
>genius/insane number theorist. There were some Jewish people in it
>who
>were trying to find a pattern in the Torah, and they said that each
>Hebrew letter was assigned a number, and that sometimes the words made
>equations, like this:
>
>the letters in father (or man, I don't remember) add up to 3
>+ the letters in mother (or woman) add up to 41
>= the letters in child add up to 44
>
>(3+41=44)
>
>Is this true? I think that's pretty cool, and it would be some
Yup, it's true.
Av = alef-bet = 1+2 = 3
Eim = alef-mem = 1+40 = 41
Yeled = yud-lamed-dalet = 10+30+4 = 44
Pi was made by the son of my 7th grade science teacher, who has a cameo
in the movie as a bad guy if i remember correctly. I never got around to
seeing it.
-Stephen (Steg)
>Nicole
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