Tag: packing of spheres
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Greek Jewish Parallels
Greek Jewish parallels: Alexander the Great met the High Priest of Israel on his string of worldwide conquests. They held a belief in common. Greek philosopher, Plato, stated how the Ideal City had 2520 paired rings. Hebrew gematria holds the key to realizing this common number in combined gematria of the five names of the…
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Dozen
Dozen usually means a group of twelve of the same thing. With the “baker’s” adjective it becomes a group of thirteen. This phrase comes from bakers’ old custom of adding one extra loaf to an order of a 12. Who would think that the baker’s twelve (really thirteen) is actually a model for the packing…