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RichardDrake
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Date Joined Aug 2001
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| Posted 8/24/2001 12:05 PM (GMT -6) |   | [I didn't intend to create a new topic here. This was meant to be heresy within the threefold structure or reality. But I can't see a way to back out of that now ...]
Hey, I'm still new here and experimenting with stuff but I want to know just how obsessive this thing about three is on this forum. The heretical question I have is: what about four? There are three or four reasons for asking ( ):
- I have a good joke about acronyms of the two different sizes (if you haven't heard it before)
- I have an interesting personal anecdote about fourness in modern mathematics and Roger Penrose
- I have come across the claim that many people historically thought four was a divine number in some way
Okay the list template I was experimenting with just now had a default of three items, so it's obviously all part of the threeness conspiracy on this forum ...
But one can also think of the triune god revealed through four gospels ... with Ezekial's vision of the four faces speaking of the latter too.
The thing is: do they persecute those people prepared to speculate about the specialness of four in this forum? Or simply quietly suppress the evidence ... ?
Then of course there's sycretism. Three plus four is seven, which is a key number for creation, however you read it, and three times four is twelve, which is pretty important in the foundations of the people of God in both parts of the book.
On the other hand 2001 where we are now is divisible by three not four, and HAL is only three letters, which could explain the special problem we're having with this obsession this year. Arthur C Clarke incremented IBM to get HAL as I'm sure you know. Did you know though that Windows NT was exactly the same trick. It was a some time after NT came out that someone emailed the lead designer, Dave Cutler, who had joined Microsoft from DEC in Boston and had previously designed the VMS operating system for VAX minicomputers. He said: "I've been thinking about the name Windows NT Dave. That's WNT, simply an increment of VMS. Any comments?" Cutler simply replied: "How come it took you so long?"
That's the kind of thing nerds find diverting I'm afraid. If nobody has heard of VMS here I apologize. But the TLA (three letter acronym) is I assure you alive and well in IT to this day.
Edited by - RichardDrake on 08/24/2001 5:14:13 PM | | Back to Top | | |
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