Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Thursday, 18 June 2026

A mathematical formula that can guarantee lottery winnings, revisited

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It's been almost a decade since I first posted about the scam going around that a mathematical formula can guarantee lottery winnings. ...
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Thursday, 14 August 2025

A life not wasted on education

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There's been a bit of a buzz recently regarding a ground-breaking discovery by a young mathematician who goes by the name Hannah Cairo....
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Saturday, 6 August 2022

Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem falsifies Atheism (something I found online)

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Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem states: “Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consist...
Sunday, 10 October 2021

A review of David Instone-Brewer's Bible Contexts Series - Chapter 20: Cain's "wife"

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Dr. David Instone-Brewer is an eminent Bible Scholar in England, one of the experts responsible for the last tranche of changes to the NIV....
Monday, 24 September 2018

Does χιλια ετη mean a thousand years?

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As promised in my last post, here is a critique of Peter Hoover's view of the Millennium. In an email broadcast on August 12, he wrote b...
Tuesday, 22 May 2018

How many metres in a cubit? The answer may astound you.

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Dear Readers, I know it's only been a day since I edited my last post (if you haven't read it yet, I highly advise it), but I just ...
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Wednesday, 28 August 2013

An Upside-down Christmas Tree in China

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In an earlier post , I pointed out that national fertility rates tend to fall wherever national income rises. While such is indeed the case ...
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012

The Old Math: Nominal Figures and Biblical Numbers

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100269 I have touched on the topic of Biblical Numbers in earlier posts; in this one I shall attempt to wrap up the entire topic as it relat...
Tuesday, 13 March 2012

The New Math: The NIV and Sarah's Three Measures of Flour

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"And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upo...
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Monday, 18 April 2011

Three Levels of Numerical Precision in Published Report

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Headline: "Libyan forces pound Misrata, 1,000 evacuated by sea" Dateline: "BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A chartered ship ev...
Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Cracking the Google Bar Code

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It's been more than 20 years since I sat down one day with a pile of envelopes and cracked the Zone Improvement Plan bar code. Excited,...
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