November 19, 2006
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Morley vs. Sagan:
Signature
From AP's "Today in History," Nov. 19, 2006:
Today's birthdays: ... Actress-director Jodie Foster is 44....
Thought for Today: "My theology, briefly, is that the universe was
dictated but not signed." --[Attributed to] Christopher Morley, American author and
journalist (1890-1957).A different story: Carl Sagan, Contact, Chapter 24-- "The Artist's Signature."
Yet another story: The Pennsylvania lottery yesterday, November 18,
2006-- mid-day 914, evening 945. For interpretations, see 9/14 (Feast
of the Triumph of the Cross) and also the following "signature" (i.e.,
"denominator"):
Number theorists may prefer to
think of 945 as the smallest
odd abundant number
(Al-Baghdadi, ca. 980-1037).Neither of these occurrences
of 945 in mathematics seems
particularly divine; perhaps there
are some other properties of
this number that make it more
credible as a divine signature--
other, that is, than its occurrence
in a lottery just in time for
Jodie Foster's birthday.
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