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Must we continue this NON "midrange technical" conversation"?

Ron Adams
Information Technology Group
Crane Valves
9200 New Trails Dr. Suite 200
The Woodlands, TX 77385



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The morbid interest of technical folk in this arcania is shown in that the
main executable for dBase-III+ (at least) has something like "666 the mark
of the beast" in the middle of it.

At 08:29 AM 9/2/2004, you wrote:
>Then shouldn't the number of the beast be 4095?
>
>Regards,
>
>Scott Ingvaldson
>iSeries System Administrator
>GuideOne Insurance Group
>
>-----Original Message-----
>date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 23:08:04 -0500
>from: "Milt Habeck" <mhabeck@xxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: The 666 mark
>
><Snip>
>A subtle point: the Holy Bible was written in Hebrew & Greek and those
>languages use letters to represent numbers. Sort of like A = 1, B = 2,
>C = 3, D = 4, E = 5, and F = 6 (using the English alphabet as just an
>illustration). So, the mark to look for isn't really "666" rather, it's
>three
>letters: like maybe "FFF" or it's equivalent in Hebrew or Greek.
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>God bless,
>Milt Habeck
>Unbeaten Path
>(888) 874-8008
>www.unpath.com
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