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!)

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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