From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!idis!mi-cec!dvk Newsgroups: net.general Title: Biblical Support for Computer Science Article-I.D.: mi-cec.238 Posted: Mon Mar 21 15:30:27 1983 Received: Thu Mar 24 21:53:42 1983 My apologies if this has been through the mill already... It seems that the New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory, in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system. "But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." Matthew 5:37 (I doubted its existance too, until I looked it up for myself!) ============================================================================== For you numerologists, there are some other interpretations (my own) that can be attached to this: Yea, yea; nay, nay => 11 00 => 30 (the age above/below which you don't trust anyone) 1 100 => 14 (the age of consent in Pennsylvania) 1100 => B+1 (the sound of my finger blibbing on my lips, 'cuz I'm nuts...) -Dan Klein, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh