RE: The 666 mark

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> Subject: RE: The 666 mark
> From: ron_adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, September 02, 2004 9:53 am
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> Must we continue this NON "midrange technical" conversation"?
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> Ron Adams
> Information Technology Group
> Crane Valves
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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.
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> At 08:29 AM 9/2/2004, you wrote:
> >Then shouldn't the number of the beast be 4095?
> >
> >Regards,
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> >Scott Ingvaldson
> >iSeries System Administrator
> >GuideOne Insurance Group
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 23:08:04 -0500
> >from: "Milt Habeck" <mhabeck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >subject: The 666 mark
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> ><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.
> ></Snip>
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> >God bless,
> >Milt Habeck
> >Unbeaten Path
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