On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> EXERCISE: which movie is the following quote from?
>
> "...and three shall be the number of the counting. Four shalt thou not count,
> nor two, excepting thou then proceed to three. Five is right out..."
>
> -Ernst
Too easy. Here's more of a challenge, who wrote this about the
perfection of the number six?
"For six is the first number that is filled by conjuction of the parts,
the sixth, the third, and the half: which is one, two, and three; all
which conjoined are six. Parts in numbers are those that may be described
by how many they are, as a half, a third, a fourth, and so forth. But four
being in nine, yet is no just part of it: one is the ninth part, and three
the third part. But these two parts, one and three, are far from making
nine the whole. So four is a part of ten, but no just part: one is the
tenth part, two the fifth, and five the second: yet these three parts one,
two, and five, make not up full ten, but eight only. As for the number of
twelve, the parts exceed it. For there is one the twelfth part, six the
second, four the third, three the fourth, and two the sixth. But one, two,
three, four, and six, make about twelve, namely sixteen. This by the way
now to prove the perfection of the number of six, the first (as I said)
that is made of the conjuction of the parts..."
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