Hi TCoders: Hannah recommended: From this I would suggest that the OBJ researchers add to their experiment, a test to find whether the 'famous rabbis' (individually and/or as a list) does or doesn't appear anywhere else - in Torah or in common texts. Same for the specific examples above. According to Mechanic, the value of a code goes down the more often you can find it, esp. in irrelevant places. I decided to test Hannah's suggestion on one of the famous rabbi names on list 2 of the SS article--Rabbi David [RBYDWD]. First one must notice that that is not a unique name on list 2, but actually represents three different famous rabbis. Nevertheless, here are the statistics for that name: Book Chance expectation Actual # of ELS's Genesis 29 35 Exodus 13 9 Leviticus 5 4 Numbers 16 19 Deuteronomy 9 5 1 Samuel 26 16 2 Samuel 22 30 1 Kings 14 15 2 Kings 11 11 1 Chronicles 20 20 2 Chronicles 15 6 Isaiah 26 16 Jeremiah 40 46 Ezekiel 31 39 The chance expectation column contains the number of ELS's that are expected by mere chance for all possible skip distances. The second column contains the actual number of ELS's found for all possible skip distances. It doesn't appear that the statistics for Genesis and the Torah are any different than those for the other books. There is no reason to expect that things would be any different for any of the other names of famous rabbis. Sincerely, James D. Price
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