[Lazarus Short]

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Originally Posted by kwkarth /img/forum/go_quote.gif The only trouble with all of that is the manuscripts we have have literally hundreds of differences between copies. Nobody knows what the real original text was. Too bad they didn't have the printing press. We only have copies of copies of copies...

The genius of the code discovered by Panin is that it enables a researcher to restore the ORIGINAL text mathematically - various bad translations, language changes, and bad editing notwithstanding. I could say much more, but this borders on the religious, so I keep within the subject, the text. I can say this much, Panin produced, over the course of fifty years, a Numerical Bible, which was mathematically consistent and coherent. No other text in human history, except of course math texts, is. If I recall it correctly, his Numerical Bible [including notes] ran to some 20,000 pages - or was that just the NT?

Laz

 

[tru blu]

I tend to start lots of books and not finish them. Here's two recent things that held onto me 'til the end: one fiction, the other non-.

Yellowcake - Ann Cummins

The Wonga Coup - Adam Roberts

 

[bperboy]

The Jericho Sanction -- Oliver North

 

[ken36]

Metzger's Dog- Thomas Perry

 

[Spiritboxer]

Dune the Butlerian Jihad - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson. Still a sci-fi geek after all these years....

 

[Vicomte]

Just finished Moby Dick. I was really pulling for Ahab, right 'til the end...

 

[LuckyKarma]

I'm currently reading "When Genius Failed" by Roger Lowenstein for a class. It's probably one of the better required books I've had to read, definitely a must for any business geek.

As far as personal reading, I'm still working my way through "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis, "Revolutions in World Missions" by K.P. Yohannan, and the other day I grabbed off the shelf "1984" by, of course, George Orwell, for another reading. Classes have cut my time dramatically, but luckily, I can still find time to get through a few pages before bed

 

[Superchunk]

The Stand - Stephen King

 

[marvin]

War Made New: Technology, Warfare, And the Course of History, 1500 to Today - Max Boot

 

[DLeeWebb]

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Originally Posted by Superchunk /img/forum/go_quote.gif The Stand - Stephen King

My favorite Stephen King book, for sure!

 

[beerguy0]

"Einstein: His Life and Universe", by Walter Isaacson

 

[ENT]

"Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

 

[fatcat28037]

 

[beer]

currently I read this

and a ton of papers and journal I have to finish reading them.

 

[bperboy]