[Essentials] Counts discussion
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This Sesame-Street-level-of-effort post is brought to you by the number seventeen.

  • There are seventeen glyphs in the four-times-repeated sequence in the second-outermost ring of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
  • There are seventeen glyphs in each half of the vertical column along the left margin of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. : the first seventeen in front of the first 3 paragraphs comprising about the first half of the text, the second seventeen in front of the second. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are the same side of the same bifolio, for what it's worth.
  • There are seventeen lines of text around the sun on f67v1, each corresponding to its own sun ray, except for the one at the two o'clock position, which gets two sun rays that combine at the tip
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Possibly interesting snippets from the Wikipedia entry on seventeen:
  • Either 16 or 18 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. can be formed into rectangles with perimeter equal to the area; and there are no other You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. with this property. The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. regarded this as a sign of their peculiar propriety; and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. notes it when writing that the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. "utterly abominate" 17, which "bars them off from each other and disjoins them".
  • According to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., 17 has some significant meaning (as yet not known exactly) in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
  • You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.'s You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., the Egyptians have a legend that the end of Osiris' life came on the seventeenth of a month, on which day it is quite evident to the eye that the period of the full moon is over. Now, because of this, the Pythagoreans call this day "the Barrier," and utterly abominate this number. For the number seventeen, coming in between the square sixteen and the oblong rectangle eighteen, which, as it happens, are the only plane figures that have their perimeters equal their areas, bars them off from each other and disjoins them, and breaks up the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. by its division into unequal intervals.
  • In the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., seventeen chapters were written by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. himself. These are the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
  • In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., the number 17 is considered unlucky. When viewed as the Roman numeral, XVII, it is then changed anagrammatically to VIXI, which in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. translates to "I lived", the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. implying "My life is over." (c.f. "Vixerunt",You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.'s famous announcement of an execution.)

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[Essentials] Counts discussion - by Koen G - 18-08-2018, 02:49 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by Anton - 31-10-2020, 02:49 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by VViews - 22-11-2020, 07:57 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by VViews - 22-11-2020, 08:02 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by Koen G - 22-11-2020, 08:07 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by VViews - 22-11-2020, 08:07 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by VViews - 22-11-2020, 08:30 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by RenegadeHealer - 20-12-2020, 04:57 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by R. Sale - 20-12-2020, 07:04 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by -JKP- - 20-12-2020, 07:56 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by R. Sale - 20-12-2020, 08:53 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by Anton - 04-11-2021, 12:52 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by Koen G - 04-11-2021, 01:13 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by Koen G - 05-11-2021, 10:22 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by Anton - 05-11-2021, 10:24 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by Anton - 05-11-2021, 10:29 PM
RE: [Essentials] Counts discussion - by Koen G - 05-11-2021, 11:04 PM

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