04-10-2016, 09:20 AM
As already pointed out by several people, the method of reducing every word to a number from 1 to 9 allows any completely arbitrary solution to be 'proven'.
The label ydaraiShy matches every ninth person that ever lived, even without altering the spelling.
One can then try out first name only, last name, both names, initials and alternative spellings, and basically
match with everyone who ever lived.
A very clear indication that one can make anything match anything was provided, when it was found that a number of characters in the MS text were misread in the first reading of 'pi', but with the corrected reading it still 'worked'.
The label ydaraiShy matches every ninth person that ever lived, even without altering the spelling.
One can then try out first name only, last name, both names, initials and alternative spellings, and basically
match with everyone who ever lived.
A very clear indication that one can make anything match anything was provided, when it was found that a number of characters in the MS text were misread in the first reading of 'pi', but with the corrected reading it still 'worked'.
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